Analysis of To Alison Cunningham, From Her Boy
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
For the long nights you lay awake
And watched for my unworthy sake:
For your most comfortable hand
That led me through the uneven land:
For all the story-books you read:
For all the pains you comforted:
For all you pitied, all you bore,
In sad and happy days of yore:-
My second Mother, my first Wife,
The angel of my infant life-
From the sick child, now well and old,
Take, nurse, the little book you hold!
And grant it, Heaven, that all who read
May find as dear a nurse at need,
And every child who lists my rhyme,
In the bright, fireside, nursery clime,
May hear it in as kind a voice
As made my childish days rejoice!
Scheme | AABBCX DDEEFF CXGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111101 01110101 11110001 111100101 11010111 11011100 1111111 01010111 11010111 01011101 10111101 11010111 011101111 11110111 010011111 001101001 11101101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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