Analysis of Autumn Fires
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
| Scheme | ABCB DCXC AEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 001010 01101 101010 1011 101010 0101010 011010 01110 101110 10101 100010 10001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 279 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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