Analysis of In Port
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Last, to the chamber where I lie
My fearful footsteps patter nigh,
And come out from the cold and gloom
Into my warm and cheerful room.
There, safe arrived, we turn about
To keep the coming shadows out,
And close the happy door at last
On all the perils that we past.
Then, when mamma goes by to bed,
She shall come in with tip-toe tread,
And see me lying warm and fast
And in the land of Nod at last.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010111 1101101 01110101 01110101 11011101 1101011 01010111 11010111 11101111 11101111 01110101 00011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 409 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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