Analysis of The Goat And I
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Each sunny day upon my way
A goat I pass;
He has a beard of silver grey,
A bell of brass.
And all the while I am in sight
He seems to muse,
And stares at me with all his might
And chews and chews.
Upon the hill so thymy sweet
With joy of Spring,
He hails me with a tiny bleat
Of welcoming.
Though half the globe is drenched with blood
And cities flare,
Contentedly he chews the cud
And does not care.
Oh gentle friend, I know not what
Your age may be,
But of my years I'd give the lot
Yet left to me,
To chew a thistle and not choke,
But bright of eye
Gaze at the old world-weary bloke
Who hobbles by.
Alas! though bards make verse sublime,
And lines to quote,
It takes a fool like me to rhyme
About a goat.
Scheme | ABABCDCD XECEXFCF XGXGHIHI JKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 0111 11011101 0111 01011101 1111 01111111 0101 0101111 1111 11110101 1100 11011111 0101 01001101 0111 11011111 1111 11111101 1111 11010011 1111 11011101 1101 01111101 0111 11011111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 828 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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