Analysis of Block City
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
But I can be happy and building at home.
Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
There I'll establish a city for me:
A kirk and a mill and a palace beside,
And a harbor as well where my vessels may ride.
Great is the palace with pillar and wall,
A sort of a tower on top of it all,
And steps coming down in an orderly way
To where my toy vessels lie safe in the bay.
This one is sailing and that one is moored:
Hark to the song of the sailors on board!
And see on the steps of my palace, the kings
Coming and going with presents and things!
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF XXGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1111011111 1001001001 1111001011 11111001011 101011001011 1101001011 01001001001 001011111011 1101011001 01101011111 01101011001 11111011001 1111001111 1101101011 01101111001 1001011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 669 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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