Analysis of Bed in Summer
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.
And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEBB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01011111 01110101 01010101 11111111 11111101 01110101 11011101 11011001 01111111 11011101 01111111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 386 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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