Analysis of The Lamplighter
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky.
It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night at teatime and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
Now Tom would be a driver and Maria go to sea,
And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be;
But I, when I am stronger and can choose what I'm to do,
O Leerie, I'll go round at night and light the lamps with you!
For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door,
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
And oh! before you hurry by with ladder and with light;
O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him to-night!
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110100011101 1111010111101 11001110011111 11001101110101 11110100010111 0110100111111 11111100111111 1111111010111 11110101010101 0111111111101 01011101110011 1110101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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