Analysis of Foreign Children
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo,
Little Turk or Japanee,
Oh! don't you wish that you were me?
You have seen the scarlet trees
And the lions over seas;
You have eaten ostrich eggs,
And turned the turtle off their legs.
Such a life is very fine,
But it's not so nice as mine:
You must often as you trod,
Have wearied NOT to be abroad.
You have curious things to eat,
I am fed on proper meat;
You must dwell upon the foam,
But I am safe and live at home.
Little Indian, Sioux or Crow,
Little frosty Eskimo,
Little Turk or Japanee,
Oh! don't you wish that you were me?
Scheme | AABC ddee bbxx ffggAABC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 10100111 101010 10111 11111101 1110101 0010101 1110101 01010111 1011101 1111111 1110111 11011101 11100111 1111101 1110101 11110111 10100111 101010 10111 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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