Analysis of Summer Sun
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.
Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.
The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.
Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.
Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEE FFGG CCAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (35%) |
Metre | 11010111 11010101 00010101 111111011 11010111 11010101 11110111 11110101 01010101 110111 01010111 0101111 1110101 11110101 010101001 010111 01010101 10111101 11011101 010010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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