Analysis of Bastard
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
The very skies wee black with shame,
As near my moment drew;
The very hour before you cam
I felt I hated you.
But now I see how fair you are,
How divine your eyes,
It seems I step upon a star
To leap to Paradise.
What care I who your father was:
('Twas better no to know);
You're mine and mine alone because
I love and love you so.
What though you only bear my name,
I hold my head on high;
For none shall have a right to claim
A right to you but I.
Because I've borne a human life,
I'm worthier, I know,
Than those who flaunt the name of wife,
And have no seed to show.
I have fulfilled, I think with joy,
My women's destiny;
And glad am I you are a boy,
For you will fight for me.
And maybe there will come a day
You'll bear a famous name,
And men will be ashamed to say:
"He was a child of shame."
A day will dawn, divinely free,
With love in every breast,
When every child will welcome be,
And every mother blest.
When every women, wed or no,
Will deem her highest good
On grateful mankind to bestow
The Gift of Motherhood.
Scheme | ABXB CXCX XD XD AEAE FDFD GHGH IAIA HJHJ DKDK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111 111101 010100111 111101 11111111 10111 11110101 11110 11111101 110111 11010101 110111 11110111 111111 11110111 011111 01110101 110011 11110111 011111 11011111 110100 01111101 111111 01011101 110101 01110111 110111 01110101 1101001 110011101 0100101 110010111 110101 11011101 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,000 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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