Analysis of Over The Land Is April

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)



OVER the land is April,
Over my heart a rose;
Over the high, brown mountain
The sound of singing goes.
Say, love, do you hear me,
Hear my sonnets ring?
Over the high, brown mountain,
Love, do you hear me sing?

By highway, love, and byway
The snows succeed the rose.
Over the high, brown mountain
The wind of winter blows.
Say, love, do you hear me,
Hear my sonnets ring?
Over the high, brown mountain
I sound the song of spring,
I throw the flowers of spring.
Do you hear the song of spring?
Hear you the songs of spring?


Scheme xaBaCDBd xaBaCDBdddd
Poetic Form
Metre 1001110 101101 1001110 011101 111111 11101 1001110 111111 11101 010101 1001110 011101 111111 11101 1001110 110111 1101011 1110111 110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 511
Words 103
Sentences 10
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 11
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 198
Words per stanza (avg) 51
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 02, 2023

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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