Analysis of My Ship and I
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond;
And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about;
But when I'm a little older, I shall find the secret out
How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.
For I mean to grow a little as the dolly at the helm,
And the dolly I intend to come alive;
And with him beside to help me, it's a-sailing I shall go,
It's a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
And the vessel goes a dive-dive-dive.
O it's then you'll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds,
And you'll hear the water singing at the prow;
For beside the dolly sailor, I'm to voyage and explore,
To land upon the island where no dolly was before,
And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.
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Metre | 111110101010101 10111010101 011110101010101 111010101110101 11111010101 111110101010101 00101011101 011011111010111 101010101010101 001010111 111111101010001 01101010101 101010101110001 11010101110101 011001010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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