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 |
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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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