Analysis of Foreign Lands
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Up into the cherry tree
Who should climb but little me?
I held the trunk with both my hands
And looked abroad in foreign lands.
I saw the next door garden lie,
Adorned with flowers, before my eye,
And many pleasant places more
That I had never seen before.
I saw the dimpling river pass
And be the sky's blue looking-glass;
The dusty roads go up and down
With people tramping in to town.
If I could find a higher tree
Farther and farther I should see,
To where the grown-up river slips
Into the sea among the ships,
To where the road on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the playthings come alive.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF AAGG HHII |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1010101 1111101 11011111 01010101 11011101 011100111 01010101 11110101 1101101 01011101 01011101 11010011 11110101 10010111 11011101 01010101 11011101 11001101 11010111 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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