Analysis of Obesity
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
With belly like a poisoned pup
Said I: 'I must give bacon up:
And also, I profanely fear,
I must abandon bread and beer
That make for portliness they say;
Yet of them copiously today
I ate with an increasingly sense
Of grievous corpulence.
I like a lot of thinks I like.
Too bad that I must go on strike
Against pork sausages and mash,
Spaghetti and fried corn-beef hash.
I deem he is a lucky soul
Who has no need of girth control;
For in the old of age: 'Il faut
Souffrir pour etre bean.'
Yet let me not be unconsoled:
So many greybeards I behold,
Distinguished in affairs of state,
In culture counted with the Great,
Have tummies with a shameless bulge,
And so I think I'll still indulge
In eats I like without a qualm,
And damn my diaphragm!'
Scheme | AABBCCXC DDEEFFGX GGGGHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 11111101 010111 11010101 111111 11110001 111101001 1101 11011111 11111111 01110001 01001111 11110101 11111101 10011111 1111 111111 1101101 01000111 01010101 11010101 01111101 01110101 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 805 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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