Analysis of Sympathy
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
My Muse is simple,--yet it's nice
To think you don't need to think twice
On words I write.
I reckon I've a common touch
And if you say I cuss too much
I answer: 'Quite!'
I envy not the poet's lot;
He has something I haven't got,
Alas, I know.
But I have something maybe he
Would envy just a mite in me,--
I'm rather low.
For I am cast of common clay,
And from a ditch I fought my way,
And that is why
The while the poet scans the skies,
My gaze is grimly gutterwise,
Earthy am I.
And yet I have a gift, perhaps
Denied to proud poetic chaps
Who scoff at me;
I know the hearts of humble folk;
I too have bowed beneath the yoke:
So let my verse for them evoke
Your sympathy.
Scheme | AABCCB DDEFFE GGHXAH IIFJJJF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 11110111 11111111 1111 11010101 01111111 1101 11010101 11101101 0111 11110101 11010101 1101 11111101 01011111 0111 01010101 111101 1011 01110101 01110101 1111 11011101 11110101 11111101 1100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 815 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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