Analysis of Tourists
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
In a strange town in a far land
They met amid a throng;
They stared, they could not understand
How life was sudden song.
As brown eyes looked in eyes of grey
Just for a moment's space,
Twin spirits met with sweet dismay
In that strange place.
And then the mob that swept them near
Reft them away again;
Two hearts in all the world most dear
Knew puzzlement and pain.
They barely brushed in passing by,
A wildered girl and boy,
Who should have clasped with laughing cry,
And wept for joy.
But no, the crowd cleft them apart,
And she went East, he West;
But there was havoc in his heart
And brooding in her breast.
In a far land, in a strange town
Amid a mob they met;
They stared, they passed . . . But O deep down,
Can they forget?
Scheme | ABABCDCD EXEXFGFG HIHIJKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00110011 110101 1111101 111101 11110111 110101 11011101 0111 01011111 110101 11010111 110001 11010101 01101 11111101 0111 11011101 011111 11110011 010001 00110011 010111 11111111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 856 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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