Analysis of Procreation
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
It hurts my pride that I should be
The issue of a night of lust;
Yet even Bishops, you'll agree,
Obey the biologic 'must';
Though no doubt with more dignity
Than we of layman dust.
I think the Lord made a mistake
When he designed the human race,
That man and angel in the make
Should have brutality for base.
Jehovah might have planned at least
Not to confound us with the beast.
So with humiliation I
Think of my basic origin;
And yet with some relief I sigh,--
I might have been conceived in sin;
Instead of being, I believe,
The offspring of a nuptial eve.
So when I look in beauty's face,
Or that of king or saint or sage,
It seems to me I darkly trace
Their being to a rutting rage . . .
Had I been Deity's adviser
Meseems I might have planned it wiser.
Scheme | ABABAB CDCDEE FXFXGG DHDHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 01010111 11010101 0100101 11111100 111101 11011001 11010101 11010001 11010011 01011111 11011101 1100101 11110100 01110111 11110101 01110101 0110101 1111011 11111111 11111101 1101011 1111010 11111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 803 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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