Analysis of The Summer Sun Shone Round Me
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
THE summer sun shone round me,
The folded valley lay
In a stream of sun and odour,
That sultry summer day.
The tall trees stood in the sunlight
As still as still could be,
But the deep grass sighed and rustled
And bowed and beckoned me.
The deep grass moved and whispered
And bowed and brushed my face.
It whispered in the sunshine:
"The winter comes apace."
| Scheme | ABXB CACA XDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0101111 010101 0011101 110101 0111001 111111 1011101 010101 0111010 010111 110001 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 355 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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