Lyric Poem · Friendship
To Friends At Home
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“To Friends At Home” by Robert Louis Stevenson — quilloak.com/poems/to-friends-at-home
Quick facts
- Poem
- To Friends At Home
- Poet
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Length
- 6 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Friendship, Winter, Love, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 6 lines · one 6-line stanza
- Line length
- Lines run 8-11 syllables (median 11). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
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- Author record
- Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894
- Source record
- PoetryDBTo Friends At Home 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 d0b2515c0f04e61a…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.