Analysis of The Land God Forgot
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn
Down valleys dreadly desolate;
The lordly mountains soar in scorn
As still as death, as stern as fate.
The lonely sunsets flame and die;
The giant valleys gulp the night;
The monster mountains scrape the sky,
Where eager stars are diamond-bright.
So gaunt against the gibbous moon,
Piercing the silence velvet-piled,
A lone wolf howls his ancient rune --
The fell arch-spirit of the Wild.
O outcast land! O leper land!
Let the lone wolf-cry all express
The hate insensate of thy hand,
Thy heart's abysmal loneliness.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FXFX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 0101101 1101100 0110101 11111111 0101101 01010101 01010101 11011101 1101011 10010101 01111101 01110101 1111101 10111101 011111 11010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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