The Dumb Soldier

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"The Dumb Soldier" is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that appears in his classic children's poetry collection *A Child’s Garden of Verses*, depicting a child's imaginative play with a toy soldier.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
poem
appearsIn A Child's Garden of Verses NERFINISHED
author Robert Louis Stevenson NERFINISHED
collection A Child's Garden of Verses NERFINISHED
collectionPublicationYear 1885
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Robert Louis Stevenson NERFINISHED
depicts child's imaginative play
featuresCharacter toy soldier
form rhymed verse
genre children's poetry
lyric poem
hasFictionalElement animated toy soldier in child's mind
hasImagery battlefield play with toy soldier
domestic childhood setting
hasTitle The Dumb Soldier NERFINISHED
intendedAudience children
language English
literaryMovement Victorian children's literature
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
meter regular meter
narrativePerspective first-person
partOf English children's literature canon
publisherOfCollection Longmans, Green & Co. NERFINISHED
subject relationship between child and toy
theme childhood
companionship
imagination
personification of toys
play

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A Child’s Garden of Verses hasPoem The Dumb Soldier