Analysis of My White Mouse
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
At dusk I saw a craintive mouse
That sneaked and stole around the house;
At first I took it for a ghost,
For it was snowy white - almost.
I've seen them in captivity,
But this white mouse was wild and free,
And every eye with stealth it stole
And foraged in the garbage hole.
I told the folks, yet wondered why
No one could see the mouse but I;
For it was really, truly white,
And not just silvered by moonlight.
And then there came a big black cat,
And thought I said: "Get out of that!"
It stared at me with savage eyes,
As big and yellow as moonrise.
And often times I wonder whether
They didn't just go off together,
In the bright moonlight, paw in paw,
For never more my mouse I saw.
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGXA HHII |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111011 11010101 11111101 1111011 11100100 11111101 010011111 0100101 11011101 11110111 11110101 011111 01110111 01111111 11111101 1101011 010111010 110111010 0011101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 677 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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