Analysis of My Husbands
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
My first I wed when just sixteen
And he was sixty-five.
He treated me like any queen
The years he was alive.
Oh I betrayed him on the sly,
Like any other bitch,
and how I longed for him to die
And leave me young and rich!
My second is a gigolo
I took when I was old;
That he deceives me well I know,
And hungers for my gold.
When I adore each silken hair
That crowns his handsome head,
I'm everlastingly aware
He wishes I were dead.
How I would love my vieux if he
Today were by my side;
My gig would have been daft for me
When I was first a bride.
But for his mother I can pass,
Although I am his wife;
Like father was my first - alas!
The irony of life.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 11111101 011101 11011101 011101 11011101 110101 01111111 011101 11010100 111111 1111111 01111 11011101 111101 1101 110101 11111111 010111 11111111 111101 11110111 11111 11011101 010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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