Analysis of Poet And Peer
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
They asked the Bard of Ayr to dine;
The banquet hall was fit and fine,
With gracing it a Lord;
The poet came; his face was grim
To find the place reserved for him
Was at the butler's board.
So when the gentry called him in,
He entered with a knavish grin
And sipped a glass of wine;
But when they asked would he recite
Something of late he'd chanced to write
He ettled to decline.
Then with a sly, sardonic look
He opened up a little book
Containing many a gem;
And as they sat in raiment fine,
So smug and soused with rosy wine,
This verse he read to them.
'You see yon birkie caw'ed a Lord,
Who struts and stares an' a' that,
Though hundreds worship at his word
He's but a coof for a' that.
For a' that and a' that,
A man's a man for a' that.
He pointed at that portly Grace
Who glared with apoplectic face,
While others stared with gloom;
Then having paid them all he owed,
Burns, Bard of Homespun, smiled and strode
Superbly from the room.
Scheme | AABCCB DDAEEA FFGAAG BHXHHH IIJKKJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11011111 01011101 110101 01011111 11010111 110101 11010110 1101011 010111 11111101 10111111 11101 11010101 11010101 0101001 0111011 11011101 111111 11111101 1101101 11010111 1101101 101001 0101101 11011101 1110101 110111 11011111 1111101 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,032 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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