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 |
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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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