Analysis of The Land of Story-Books
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
At evening when the lamp is lit,
Around the fire my parents sit;
They sit at home and talk and sing,
And do not play at anything.
Now, with my little gun, I crawl
All in the dark along the wall,
And follow round the forest track
Away behind the sofa back.
There, in the night, where none can spy,
All in my hunter's camp I lie,
And play at books that I have read
Till it is time to go to bed.
These are the hills, these are the woods,
These are my starry solitudes;
And there the river by whose brink
The roaring lions come to drink.
I see the others far away
As if in firelit camp they lay,
And I, like to an Indian scout,
Around their party prowled about.
So when my nurse comes in for me,
Home I return across the sea,
And go to bed with backward looks
At my dear land of Story-books.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010111 010101101 11110101 0111110 11110111 10010101 01010101 01010101 10011111 10110111 01111111 11111111 11011101 111101 01010111 01010111 11010101 1101111 011111001 01110101 11111011 11010101 01111101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 795 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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