Lyric Poem · For Kids
The Land of Nod
by Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885
1From breakfast on through all the day
2At home among my friends I stay;
3But every night I go abroad
4Afar into the land of Nod.
5All by myself I have to go,
6With none to tell me what to do—
7All alone beside the streams
8And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Land of Nod
- Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Published
- 1885
- Length
- 16 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- For Kids, Dreams & Sleep
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 16 lines · 4 quatrains
- End rhyme
- AABC in 75% of the stanzas. The remaining stanzas vary, often through slant rhyme.
- Line length
- Mostly 8-syllable lines (tetrameter length).
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
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- Author record
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
- Source record
- WikisourceThe Land of Nod by robert-louis-stevenson, Wikisource transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- 1885
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 31814f11b1c4bab9…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.