A Good Play
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
We built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of soft pillows
To go a-sailing on the billows.
We took a saw and several nails,
And water in the nursery pails;
And Tom said, "Let us also take
An apple and a slice of cake;"--
Which was enough for Tom and me
To go a-sailing on, till tea.
We sailed along for days and days,
And had the very best of plays;
But Tom fell out and hurt his knee,
So there was no one left but me.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AABB CCDDEE FFEE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 471 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 4 |
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