Analysis of My Kingdom
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
Down by a shining water well
I found a very little dell,
No higher than my head.
The heather and the gorse about
In summer bloom were coming out,
Some yellow and some red.
I called the little pool a sea;
The little hills were big to me;
For I am very small.
I made a boat, I made a town,
I searched the caverns up and down,
And named them one and all.
And all about was mine, I said,
The little sparrows overhead,
The little minnows too.
This was the world and I was king;
For me the bees came by to sing,
For me the swallows flew.
I played there were no deeper seas,
Nor any wider plains than these,
Nor other kings than me.
At last I heard my mother call
Out from the house at evenfall,
To call me home to tea.
And I must rise and leave my dell,
And leave my dimpled water well,
And leave my heather blooms.
Alas! and as my home I neared,
How very big my nurse appeared.
How great and cool the rooms!
Scheme | AABCCB DDEFFE BBGHHG IIDEAD AAJKKJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (27%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010101 11010101 110111 01000101 01010101 110011 11010101 01010111 111101 11011101 11010101 011101 01011111 01010101 010101 11010111 11011111 110101 11101101 11010111 110111 11111101 110111 111111 01110111 01110101 011101 01011111 11011101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 910 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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