Analysis of Oh, It Is Good
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Oh, it is good to drink and sup,
And then beside the kindly fire
To smoke and heap the faggots up,
And rest and dream to heart's desire.
Oh, it is good to ride and run,
To roam the greenwood wild and free;
To hunt, to idle in the sun,
To leap into the laughing sea.
Oh, it is good with hand and brain
To gladly till the chosen soil,
And after honest sweat and strain
To see the harvest of one's toil.
Oh, it is good afar to roam,
And seek adventure in strange lands;
Yet oh, so good the coming home,
The velvet love of little hands.
So much is good. . . . We thank Thee, God,
For all the tokens Thou hast given,
That here on earth our feet have trod
Thy little shining trails of Heaven.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 010101010 1101011 010111010 11111101 1101101 11110001 11010101 11111101 11010101 01010101 11010111 11110111 01010011 11110101 01011101 11111111 110101110 111110111 110101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 10 |
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) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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