Poetry Practice

BED IN SUMMER 
by Robert Louis Stevenson 



In winter I get up at night
 And dress by yellow candlelight 
In summer, quite the other way, 
I have to go to bed by day. 

I have to go to bed and see 
The birds still hopping on the tree, 
Or hear the grown-up people's feet 
Still going past me in the street. 

And does it not seem hard to you, 
When all the sky is clear and blue, 
And I should like so much to play, 
To have to go to bed by day? 

number of lines= 12 lines
number of stanzas= 3 stanzas
Rhyme pattern=   aabb,ccdd, eebb

Figurative language:
Simile
Metaphore  And dress by yellow candlelight= I get dressed at night
Personification
Imaginery

Rhythm=  8 syllables per line


Sandra 😍