Analysis of Where Go the Boats?
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Dark brown is the river,
Golden is the sand.
It flows along for ever,
With trees on either hand.
Green leaves a-floating,
Castles of the foam,
Boats of mine a-boating -
Where will all come home?
On goes the river
And out past the mill,
Away down the valley,
Away down the hill.
Away down the river,
A hundred miles or more,
Other little children
Shall bring my boats ashore.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD AEXE AFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111010 10101 1101110 111101 11010 10101 111010 11111 11010 01101 011010 01101 011010 010111 101010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 368 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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