Analysis of Unforgotten
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I know a garden where the lilies gleam,
And one who lingers in the sunshine there;
She is than white-stoled lily far more fair,
And oh, her eyes are heaven-lit with dream!
I know a garret, cold and dark and drear,
And one who toils and toils with tireless pen,
Until his brave, sad eyes grow weary -- then
He seeks the stars, pale, silent as a seer.
And ah, it's strange; for, desolate and dim,
Between these two there rolls an ocean wide;
Yet he is in the garden by her side
And she is in the garret there with him.
Scheme | ABBA BCCX DEED |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101010101 011100011 1111110111 0101110111 1101010101 01110111001 0111111101 1101110101 0111110001 0111111101 1110010101 0110010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 537 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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