Analysis of Old Sweethearts
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Oh Maggie, do you mind the day
We went to school together,
And as we stoppit by the way
I rolled you in the heather?
My! but you were the bonny lass
And we were awfu' late for class.
Your locks are now as white as snow,
And you are ripe and wrinkled,
A grandmother ten times or so,
Yet how your blue eyes twinkled
At me above your spectacles,
Recalling naughty neck-tickles!
It must be fifty years today
I left you for the Yukon;
You haven't changed - your just as gay
And just as sweet to look on.
But can you see in this old fool
The lad who made you late for school?
Oh Maggie, ask me in to tea
And we can talk things over,
And contemplate the nuptial state,
For I am still your lover:
And though the bell be slow to chime
We'll no be grudgin' o' the time
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF AGAGHH XBXBII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 1111010 0111101 1110010 11100101 0101111 11111111 0111010 0101111 1111110 11011100 01010110 11110101 111101 11011111 0111111 11110111 01111111 11011011 0111110 0100101 1111110 01011111 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 831 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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