Analysis of An English Breeze

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



UP with the sun, the breeze arose,
Across the talking corn she goes,
And smooth she rustles far and wide
Through all the voiceful countryside.

Through all the land her tale she tells;
She spins, she tosses, she compels
The kites, the clouds, the windmill sails
And all the trees in all the dales.

God calls us, and the day prepares
With nimble, gay and gracious airs:
And from Penzance to Maidenhead
The roads last night He watered.

God calls us from inglorious ease,
Forth and to travel with the breeze
While, swift and singing, smooth and strong
She gallops by the fields along.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEBX FFGG
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11010101 01010111 0111101 110110 11010111 11110101 0101011 01010101 11100101 11010101 01111 0111110 111101001 10110101 11010101 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 573
Words 106
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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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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