Analysis of Simplicity
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
What I seek far yet seldom find
Is large simplicity of mind
In fellow men;
For I have sprouted from the sod,
Like Bobbie Burns, my earthly god,
--From plough to pen.
So I refuse my brain to vex
With problems prosy and complex,
Beyond my scope;
To me simplicity is peace,
So I persue it without cease,
And growing hope.
"The world is too much with us," wrote
Wise Wordsworth, whom I love to quote,
When rhymes are coy;
And simple is the world I see,
With bud and bloom and brook and tree
To give me joy.
So blissfully I slip away
From brazen and dynamic day
To dingle cool . . .
Now tell me friend, if in your eyes,
By being simple I am wise,--
Or just a fool?
Scheme | AABCCB DDEFFE GGHIIH JJKLLK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 11010011 0101 11110101 11011101 1111 11011111 1101010 0111 11010011 1111011 0101 01111111 11011111 1111 01010111 11010101 1111 11001101 11000101 1101 11111011 11010111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 833 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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