Analysis of Home And Love
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Just Home and Love! the words are small
Four little letters unto each;
And yet you will not find in all
The wide and gracious range of speech
Two more so tenderly complete:
When angels talk in Heaven above,
I'm sure they have no words more sweet
Than Home and Love.
Just Home and Love! it's hard to guess
Which of the two were best to gain;
Home without Love is bitterness;
Love without Home is often pain.
No! each alone will seldom do;
Somehow they travel hand and glove:
If you win one you must have two,
Both Home and Love.
And if you've both, well then I'm sure
You ought to sing the whole day long;
It doesn't matter if you're poor
With these to make divine your song.
And so I praisefully repeat,
When angels talk in Heaven above,
There are no words more simply sweet
Than Home and Love.
Scheme | ababcDcD xexefdfd xgxgcDcD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 11010101 01111101 01010111 11110001 110101001 11111111 1101 11011111 11010111 10111100 10111101 11011101 1110101 11111111 1101 01111111 11110111 11010111 11110111 011101 110101001 11111101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 809 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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