Analysis of My Favourite Fan
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Being a writer I receive
Sweet screeds from folk of every land;
Some are so weird you'd scarce believe,
And some quite hard to understand:
But as a conscientious man
I type my thanks to all I can.
So when I got a foreign scrawl
That spider-webbed across the page,
Said I: "This is the worst of all;
No doubt a child of tender age
Has written it, so I'll be kind,
And send an answer to her mind.
Promptly I typed a nice reply
And thought that it would be the end,
But in due course confused was I
To get a letter signed: Your Friend;
And with it, full of girlish grace,
A snapshot of a winsome face.
"I am afraid," she wrote to me,
"That you must have bees sure surprised
At my poor penmanship . . . You see,
My arms and legs are paralyzed:
With pen held in a sort of sheath
I do my writing with my teeth."
Though sadness followed my amaze,
And pity too, I must confess
The look that lit her laughing gaze
Was one of sunny happiness. . . .
Oh spirit of a heroine!
Your smile so tender, so divine,
I pray, may never cease to shine.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MXMXXNN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 111111001 11111101 0111101 1100101 11111111 11110101 11010101 11110111 11011101 11011111 01110101 10110101 01111101 10110111 11010111 01111101 0110101 11011111 11111101 111111 1101110 11100111 11110111 11010101 01011101 01110101 11110100 11010100 11110101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,011 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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