Analysis of Relativity
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I looked down on a daisied lawn
To where a host of tiny eyes
Of snow and gold from velvet shone
And made me think of starry skies.
I looked up to the vasty night
Where stars were very small indeed,
And in their galaxy of light
They made me think of daised mead.
I took a daisy in my hold;
Its snowy rays were tipped with rose,
And with its tiny boss of gold
I thought--how like a star it glows!
I dreamt I plucked from Heaven's field
A star and held it in my hand.
Said I: "The might of God I wield,
The Great and Small I understand."
For when the All is said and done,
In Time and Space I seem to see
A daisy equal to a sun,
Between heart-beats--Eternity
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111011 11011101 11011101 01111101 1111011 11010101 00110011 1111111 11010011 11010111 01110111 11110111 11111101 01011011 11011111 0101101 11011101 01011111 01010101 01110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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