Analysis of Sinister Sooth
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
You say I am the slave of Fate
Bound by unalterable laws.
I harken, but your words I hate,
Your damnable Effect and Cause.
If there's no hope for happy Chance
Give me the bliss of ignorance.
You say my life ends with the tomb;
This brain, my mind machine, will rot;
Its many million cells that room
My personality and thought
Will in the Dark Destroyer's term
Provide a banquet for the worm.
You say--yet though your wisdom wells,
To it I am unreconciled;
My mind admits, my heart rebels . . .
O let me listen like a child
To Him who spoke with blessed breath
From bench of toil in Nazareth!
Scheme | AXAXXX BXBXCC XDXDXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 11010001 11011111 110101 11111101 11011100 11111101 11110111 11010111 1010001 100111 01010101 11111101 1111010 11011110 11110101 1111111 11110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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