Lyric Poem · Peace
The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod
THE angler rose, he took his rod,
He kneeled and made his prayers to God.
The living God sat overhead:
The angler tripped, the eels were fed
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“The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod” by Robert Louis Stevenson — quilloak.com/poems/the-angler-rose-he-took-his-rod
Quick facts
- Poem
- The Angler Rose, He Took His Rod
- Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Peace, Nature, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- End rhyme
- AABB — couplets.
- Line length
- Long metre. Four eight-syllable lines (8.8.8.8), the hymn stanza's longer cousin.
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- Author record
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
- Source record
- PoetryDBThe Angler Rose, He Took His Rod 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 fe60aa36bb16fea1…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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