Lyric Poem · For Kids
Bed in Summer
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“Bed in Summer” by Robert Louis Stevenson — quilloak.com/poems/bed-in-summer
Quick facts
- Poem
- Bed in Summer
- Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Length
- 12 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- For Kids, Nature, Summer, Winter
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 12 lines · 3 quatrains
- End rhyme
- AABB in 67% of the stanzas — couplets. The remaining stanzas vary, often through slant rhyme.
- Line length
- Long metre. Four eight-syllable lines (8.8.8.8), the hymn stanza's longer cousin.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
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- Author record
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
- Source record
- PoetryDBBed in Summer by robert-louis-stevenson, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 cf0b64f89a427143…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.