Analysis of Your Poem
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
My poem may be yours indeed
In melody and tone,
If in its rhythm you can read
A music of your own;
If in its pale woof you can weave
Your lovelier design,
'Twill make my lyric, I believe,
More yours than mine.
I'm but a prompter at the best;
Crude cues are all I give.
In simple stanzas I suggest -
'Tis you who make them live.
My bit of rhyme is but a frame,
And if my lines you quote,
I think, although they bear my name,
'Tis you who wrote.
Yours is the beauty that you see
In any words I sing;
The magic and the melody
'Tis you, dear friend, who bring.
Yea, by the glory and the gleam,
The loveliness that lures
Your thought to starry heights of dream,
The poem's yours.
Scheme | XAXABCBC DXDXEFEF GHGHIJIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 010001 10110111 010111 10111111 1101 11110101 1111 1101101 111111 01010101 111111 11111101 011111 1111111 1111 11010111 010111 01000100 111111 11010001 0111 11110111 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 683 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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