Analysis of Windy Nights
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Whenever the moon and stars are set,
Whenever the wind is high,
All night long in the dark and wet,
A man goes riding by.
Late in the night when the fires are out,
Why does he gallop and gallop about?
Whenever the trees are crying aloud,
And ships are tossed at sea,
By, on the highway, low and loud,
By at the gallop goes he.
By at the gallop he goes, and then
By he comes back at the gallop again.
Scheme | ABABCCDEDEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010010111 0100111 11100101 011101 1001101011 1111001001 0100111001 011111 1101101 1101011 110101101 1111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 396 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 304 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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