Analysis of A Good Play
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
We built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of soft pillows
To go a-sailing on the billows.
We took a saw and several nails,
And water in the nursery pails;
And Tom said, "Let us also take
An apple and a slice of cake;"--
Which was enough for Tom and me
To go a-sailing on, till tea.
We sailed along for days and days,
And had the very best of plays;
But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
So there was no one left but me.
| Scheme | AABB CCDDEE FFEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 1110111 01111110 110101010 11010101 010001001 01111101 11000111 11011101 11010111 11011101 01010111 11110111 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 471 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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