Analysis of Singing

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



Of speckled eggs the birdie sings
And nests among the trees;
The sailor sings of ropes and things
In ships upon the seas.

The children sing in far Japan,
The children sing in Spain;
The organ with the organ man
Is singing in the rain.


Scheme ABAB CDCD
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 11010101 010101 01011101 010101 01010101 010101 01010101 110001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 242
Words 47
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 93
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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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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