Analysis of My Hero
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Of all the boys with whom I fought
In Africa and Sicily,
Bill was the bravest of the lot
In our dare-devil Company.
That lad would rather die than yield;
His gore he glorified to spill,
And so in every battlefield
A hero in my eyes was Bill.
Then when the bloody war was done,
He moseyed back to our home town,
And there, a loving mother's son,
Like other kids he settled down.
His old girl seemed a shade straight-laced,
For when I called my buddy "Bill,"
She looked at me with some distaste,
Suggesting that his name was "Will."
And then he had to get engaged,
And took unto himself a wife;
And so inevitably caged,
He settled down to wedded life.
He introduced me to his Missis,
But oh I thought her rather silly,
For in between their frequent kisses
She called my hard-boiled here: "Willie."
Now he has long forgot the War,
The which he did a lot to win,
And feeling full of ginger for
He's happy Pop of cherubs twin.
Yet with his air: "Don't care a damn,"
On Main Street he's my hero still . . .
As proud he wheels a double pram
What guy has got the guts of Bill!
| Scheme | XAXABCBC DEDEFCFC GHGHIAIA JKJKXCXC |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011111 01000100 11010101 010110100 11110111 1111011 01010010 01001111 11010111 11111011 01010101 11011101 11110111 11111101 11111101 01011111 01111101 01100101 01010001 11011101 1011111 111101010 100111010 11111110 11110101 01110111 01011101 11011101 11111101 11111101 11110101 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,045 |
| Words | 212 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 32 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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