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?
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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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