Analysis of Profane Poet
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Oh how it would enable me
To titillate my vanity
If you should choose to label me
A Poet of Profanity!
For I've been known with vulgar slang
To stoke the Sacred Fire,
And even used a word like 'hang',
Suggesting ire.
Yea, I've been slyly told, although
It savours of inanity,
In print the ladies often show
A failing for profanity.
So to delight the dears I try,
And often in the past
In fabricating sonnets I
Have fulminated: 'Blast!'
I know I shock the sober folk
Who doubt my lyric sanity,
And readers of my rhyme provoke
By publishing profanity,
But oh a hale and hearty curse
Is very dear to me,
And so I end this bit of verse
With d-- and d-- and d--!
Scheme | AAAABXBX CDCAEDED FAFAGAGA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 1101100 11111101 01010100 11111101 1101010 01010111 0101 1111011 1111 01010101 01010100 11010111 010001 0100101 111 11110101 11110100 01011101 11000100 11010101 110111 01111111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 732 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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