Analysis of Poet's Path
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
My garden hath a slender path
With ivy overgrown,
A secret place where once would pace
A pot all alone;
I see him now with fretted brow,
Plunged deep in thought;
And sometimes he would write maybe,
And sometimes he would not.
A verse a day he used to say
Keeps worry from the door;
Without the stink of printer's ink
How life would be a bore!
And so from chime of breakfast time
To supper he would beat
The pathway flat, a mossy mat
For his poetic feet.
He wrote, I'm told, of gods of old
And mythologic men;
Far better he had sung, maybe,
Of plain folks now and then;
With bitterness he would confess
Too lofty was his aim. . . .
And then with woe I saw him throw
His poems to the flame.
He went away one bitter day
When death was in the sky;
No further word I ever heard
Beyond his last goodbye.
Did battle grim take toll of him
In heaven-rocking wrath?
Oh did he write in starry flight
His name in flame on hell-brewed night?
... Well, there's my poet's path.
Scheme | ABXBXXCX DEXEXFXF XGCGXHXH DIXIXAJJA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11001 01011111 01101 11111101 1101 00111110 001111 01011111 110101 01011101 111101 01111101 110111 011011 110101 11111111 011 11011110 111101 11001101 110111 01111111 110101 11011101 111001 11011101 01111 11011111 010101 11110101 11011111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 943 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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