Analysis of Young Night-Thought
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
All night long and every night,
When my mama puts out the light,
I see the people marching by,
As plain as day before my eye.
Armies and emperor and kings,
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by day.
So fine a show was never seen
At the great circus on the green;
For every kind of beast and man
Is marching in that caravan.
As first they move a little slow,
But still the faster on they go,
And still beside me close I keep
Until we reach the town of Sleep.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101001 11101101 11010101 11110111 10010001 1100100111 01001101 11010111 11011101 10110101 110011101 1100110 11110101 11010111 01011111 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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