Analysis of The Hayloft
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Through all the pleasant meadow-side
The grass grew shoulder-high,
Till the shining scythes went far and wide
And cut it down to dry.
Those green and sweetly smelling crops
They led the waggons home;
And they piled them here in mountain tops
For mountaineers to roam.
Here is Mount Clear, Mount Rusty-Nail,
Mount Eagle and Mount High;--
The mice that in these mountains dwell,
No happier are than I!
Oh, what a joy to clamber there,
Oh, what a place for play,
With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air,
The happy hills of hay!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XBXB EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011 011101 101011101 011111 11010101 11011 011110101 11011 11111101 110011 01101101 1100111 11011101 110111 101010101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 531 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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