Analysis of To Any Reader
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
As from the house your mother sees
You playing round the garden trees,
So you may see, if you will look
Through the windows of this book,
Another child, far, far away,
And in another garden, play.
But do not think you can at all,
By knocking on the window, call
That child to hear you. He intent
Is all on his play-business bent.
He does not hear; he will not look,
Nor yet be lured out of this book.
For, long ago, the truth to say,
He has grown up and gone away,
And it is but a child of air
That lingers in the garden there.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEBBCCFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 11010101 11111111 1010111 01011101 00010101 11111111 11010101 11111101 11111101 11111111 11111111 11010111 11110101 01110111 11000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 399 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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