Analysis of My Treasures

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)



These nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest,
Where all my tin soldiers are lying at rest,
Were gathered in Autumn by nursie and me
In a wood with a well by the side of the sea.

This whistle we made (and how clearly it sounds!)
By the side of a field at the end of the grounds.
Of a branch of a plane, with a knife of my own,
It was nursie who made it, and nursie alone!

The stone, with the white and the yellow and grey,
We discovered I cannot tell HOW far away;
And I carried it back although weary and cold,
For though father denies it, I'm sure it is gold.

But of all my treasures the last is the king,
For there's very few children possess such a thing;
And that is a chisel, both handle and blade,
Which a man who was really a carpenter made.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11111001101 11111011011 0100101101 001101101101 11011011011 101101101101 101101101111 1111110101 01101001001 101011011101 01101111001 111001111111 11111001101 111011001101 01101011001 101111001001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 759
Words 159
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 143
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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