Analysis of The Sun Travels

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)



The sun is not a-bed, when I
At night upon my pillow lie;
Still round the earth his way he takes,
And morning after morning makes.

While here at home, in shining day,
We round the sunny garden play,
Each little Indian sleepy-head
Is being kissed and put to bed.

And when at eve I rise from tea,
Day dawns beyond the Atlantic Sea;
And all the children in the west
Are getting up and being dressed.


Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 01110111 11011101 11011111 01010101 11110101 11010101 110100101 11010111 01111111 110100101 01010001 11010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 404
Words 79
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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