Analysis of From a Railway Carriage

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



Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And here is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart runaway in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill, and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone forever!


Scheme AABBCCDDEEAFGGHH
Poetic Form
Metre 1011010110 1001010010 01001110010 1101010010 1101101001 1111101 01001001111 1010101 110111010 1101010010 110111010 01101110010 110110001 10011101 01101011010 10101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 619
Words 120
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 492
Words per stanza (avg) 118
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 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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