Analysis of Brave New World
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
One spoke: "Come, let us gaily go
With laughter, love and lust,
Since in a century or so
We'll all be boneyard dust.
When unborn shadows hold the screen,
(Our betters, I'll allow)
'Twill be as if we'd never been,
A hundred years from now.
When we have played life's lively game
Right royally we'll rot,
And not a soul will care a damn
The why or how we fought;
To grub for gold or grab for fame
Or raise a holy row,
It will be all the bloody same
A hundred years from now."
Said I: "Look! I have built a tower
Upon you lonely hill,
Designed to be a daughter's dower,
Yet when my heart is still,
The stone I set with horny hand
And salty sweat of brow,
A record of my strength will sand
A hundred years from now.
"There's nothing lost and nothing vain
In all this world so wide;
The ocean hoards each drop of rain
To swell its sweeping tide;
The desert seeks each grain of sand
It's empire to endow,
And we a bright brave world have planned
A hundred years from now.
And all we are and all we do
Will bring that world to be;
Our strain and pain let us not rue,
Though other eyes shall see;
For other hearts will bravely beat
And lips will sing of how
We strove to make life sane and sweet
A hundred years from now.
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 11111101 110101 10010011 11111 1111101 1010101 11111101 010111 11111101 110011 01011101 011111 11111111 110101 11110101 010111 111111010 011101 01110101 111111 01111101 010111 00111111 010111 11010101 011111 01011111 111101 01011111 1100101 01011111 010111 01110111 111111 101011111 110111 11011101 011111 11111101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,186 |
Words | 246 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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