Analysis of Miracles
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Each time that I switch on the light
A Miracle it seems to me
That I should rediscover sight
And banish dark so utterly.
One moment I am bleakly blind,
The next--exultant life I find.
Below the sable of the sky
My eyelids double darkness make.
Sleep is divine, yet oh how I
Am glad with wonder to awake!
To welcome, glimmery and wan
The mighty Miracle of Dawn.
For I've mad moments when I seem,
With all the marvel of a child,
To dwell within a world of dream,
To sober fact unreconciled.
Each simple act has struck me thus--
Incredibly miraculous.
When everything I see and do
So magical can seem to me,
How vain it is to seek the True,
The riddle of Reality . . .
So let me with joy lyrical
Proclaim all Life a Miracle!
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEXX FGFGHH IBIBJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 01001111 11100101 01011100 1101111 01010111 01010101 1110101 11011111 11110101 110101 01010011 11110111 11010101 11010111 1101010 11011111 01000100 1101101 11001111 11111101 010110 11111100 01110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 706 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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