Analysis of A Lyric Day
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I deem that there are lyric days
So ripe with radiance and cheer,
So rich with gratitude and praise
That they enrapture all the year.
And if there is a God b\above,
(As they would tell me in the Kirk,)
How he must look with pride and love
Upon his perfect handiwork!
To-day has been a lyric day
I hope I shall remember long,
Of meadow dance and roundelay,
Of woodland glee, of glow and song.
Such joy I saw in maidens eyes,
In mother gaze such tender bliss . . .
How earth would rival paradise
If every day could be like this!
Why die, say I? Let us live on
In lyric world of song and shine,
With ecstasy from dawn to dawn,
Until we greet the dawn Devine.
For I believe, with star and sun,
With peak and plain, with sea and sod,
Inextricably we are one,
Bound in the Wholeness - God.
Scheme | ABABCDCD XEXEXFXF XGXGHIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 11110001 1111001 11010101 0111011 11111001 11111101 0110110 11110101 11110101 11101 1111101 11110101 01011101 1111010 110011111 11111111 01011101 11001111 01110101 11011101 11011101 01000111 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 768 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 200 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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