Analysis of Shadow March
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
All around the house is the jet-black night;
It stares through the window-pane;
It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,
And it moves with the moving flame.
Now my little heart goes a beating like a drum,
With the breath of the Bogies in my hair;
And all around the candle and the crooked shadows come,
And go marching along up the stair.
The shadow of the balusters, the shadow of the lamp,
The shadow of the child that goes to bed--
All the wicked shadows coming tramp, tramp, tramp,
With the black night overhead.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 1010110111 1110101 11001010101 01110101 111011010101 101101011 0101010001011 011001101 0110101101 011011111 1010110111 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 532 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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