Analysis of I Love To Be Warm By The Red Fireside
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
I LOVE to be warm by the red fireside,
I love to be wet with rain:
I love to be welcome at lamplit doors,
And leave the doors again.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110110 1111111 111110111 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 137 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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