Analysis of My Bed is a Boat
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
My bed is like a little boat;
Nurse helps me in when I embark;
She girds me in my sailor's coat
And starts me in the dark.
At night I go on board and say
Good-night to all my friends on shore;
I shut my eyes and sail away
And see and hear no more.
And sometimes things to bed I take,
As prudent sailors have to do;
Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,
Perhaps a toy or two.
All night across the dark we steer;
But when the day returns at last,
Safe in my room beside the pier,
I find my vessel fast.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 11101101 11101101 011001 11111101 11111111 11110101 010111 00111111 11010111 01011101 010111 11010111 11010111 10110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 503 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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