Analysis of Lobster For Lunch
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
His face was like a lobster red,
His legs were white as mayonnaise:
"I've had a jolly lunch," he said,
That Englishman of pleasant ways.
"Thy do us well at our hotel:
In England food is dull these days."
"We had a big langouste for lunch.
I almost ate the whole of it.
And now I'll smoke and read my Punch,
And maybe siesta a bit;
And then I'll plunge into the sea
And get an appetite for tea."
We saw him plunge into the sea,
With jolly laugh, his wife and I.
"George does enjoy his food," said she;
"In Leeds lobsters are hard to buy.
How lucky we to have a chance
To spend our holiday in France!"
And so we watched him swim and swim
So far and far we scarce could see,
Until his balding head grew dim;
And then there came his children three,
And we all waited there for him, -
Ah yes, a little anxiously.
But George, alas! came never back.
Of him they failed to find a trace;
His wife and kids are wearing black,
And miss a lot his jolly face . . .
But oh how all the lobsters laugh,
And write in wrack his epitaph.
Scheme | ABABXB CDCDEE EFEFGG HEHEHE IJIJKK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11110101 1101110 11010111 11001101 111111001 01011111 1101111 1110111 01110111 010101 01110101 0111011 11110101 11011101 11011111 01101111 11011101 11101001 01111101 11011111 01110111 01111101 01110111 11010100 11011101 11111101 11011101 01011101 11110101 0101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 998 |
Words | 210 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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