Analysis of The Womb
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Up from the evil day
Of wattle and of woad,
Along man's weary way
Dark Pain has been the goad.
Back from the age of stone,
Within his brutish brain,
What pleasure he has known
Is ease from Pain.
Behold in Pain the force
That haled Man from the Pit,
And set him such a course
No mind can measure it.
To angel from the ape
No human pang was vain
In that divine escape
To joy through Pain.
See Pain with stoic eyes
And patient fortitude,
A blessing in disguise,
An instrument of good.
Aye, though with hearts forlorn
We to despair be fain,
Believe that Joy is born
From Womb of Pain.
Scheme | AAAXBCBC DEDEFCFC GXGXHCHC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 110011 011101 111101 110111 011101 110111 1111 010101 111101 011101 111101 110101 110111 010101 1111 111101 01010 010001 110011 111101 110111 011111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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