Unlike Daisied Meadows, this poem has a consistent rhythmic structure. In the first repeated section of the music there are only two rhythmic patterns, each repeated a total of four times, forcing consistency on the poem. Because of the longer quarter notes at the end of each phrase, the music suggests that the reciter must treat the words “by me”, “nigh me”, “river” and ”ever” as having two feet, rather than as a trochee of one foot. Finally, Stevenson again uses some subtle tone painting by setting the words “lave” and “byway” to faster sixteenth note divisions of the music, letting the words wash or rush by.
Similar discussions of the effect of music on Stevenson’s verse could be pursued for each of the many poems that were based directly on music. However, this was intended as a bibliographical rather than a literary essay. Though no evidence as persuasive as the “shopping list” exists for their presence, Stevenson’s music library must also have included such works as English Minstrelsie, Beauties of Caledonia, Complete Songs Of Robert Burns, Horetzky’s 60 National Airs, Lenz’s Classiques de l'Enfance, Songs of Scotland without Words, and many others, all of which appear in the bibliography below.
Other writers such as Rousseau, E.T.A Hoffmann and Tolstoy composed more sophisticated and complex music than Stevenson. Music for him, however, seemed to pervade his and his family’s entire life, and its influence can be found throughout his writings. He composed, arranged and played music for pleasure, to understand the art itself, and to recall memories of people and his past, yet the most important use of music for Stevenson may really have been to inspire and shape his poetry. The discovery of more of the sources he used, such as those on his Christmas shopping list for Fred, would certainly lead to a greater insight into both his music and his verse.
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