Analysis of The Land of Nod
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.
All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do --
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.
Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.
| Scheme | AABC XXDD EEBC AAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 11011111 110011101 01010111 1111111 11111111 1010101 01010111 01011111 11110111 010100101 11000111 11111101 11011111 11010101 010010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 516 |
| Words | 109 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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