Analysis of Singing
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Of speckled eggs the birdie sings
And nests among the trees;
The sailor sings of ropes and things
In ships upon the seas.
The children sing in far Japan,
The children sing in Spain;
The organ with the organ man
Is singing in the rain.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 11010101 010101 01011101 010101 01010101 010101 01010101 110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 242 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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