LAND OF PLAY

The Land of Story-Books’ by Robert Louis Stevenson is a six stanza poem that is divided into sets of four lines, or quatrains. These quatrains follow a simple rhyme scheme of aabb ccdd eeff… and so on, throughout the entirety of the poem. The basic rhyming pattern fits in well with the subject matter, and intended audience of the poem. It was written as a child’s narrative and the bouncing rhythm would have been attractive to a younger audience.