Analysis of Baby Sitter
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
From torrid heat to frigid cold
I've rovered land and sea;
And now, with halting heart I hold
My grandchild on my knee:
Yet while I've eighty years all told,
Of moons she has but three.
She sleeps, that fragile miniature
Of future maidenhood;
She will be wonderful, I'm sure,
As over her I brood;
She is so innocent, so pure,
I know she will be good.
My way I've won from woe to weal,
And hard has been the fight;
Yet in my ingle-nook I feel
A wondrous peace to-night;
And over me serenely steal
Warm waves of love and light.
"What sloppy stuff!" I hear you say.
"Give us a lusty song."
Alas! I'm bent and gnarled and grey,--
My life may not be long:
Yet let its crown of glory be
This child upon me knee.
Scheme | ABABAB CACXCX DEDEDE FGFGBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 11101 01110111 11111 11110111 111111 11110100 1101 11110011 110011 11110011 111111 11111111 011101 10110111 010111 010101001 111101 11011111 110101 01110101 111111 11111101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 755 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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