Analysis of Home, My Little Children, Hear Are Songs For You
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
COME, my little children, here are songs for you;
Some are short and some are long, and all, all are new.
You must learn to sing them very small and clear,
Very true to time and tune and pleasing to the ear.
Mark the note that rises, mark the notes that fall,
Mark the time when broken, and the swing of it all.
So when night is come, and you have gone to bed,
All the songs you love to sing shall echo in your head.
| Scheme | AAXX BBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11101011111 111011101111 11111110101 1011101010101 10111010111 101110001111 11111011111 1011111110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 417 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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