Analysis of Bank Robber
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I much admire, I must admit,
The man who robs a Bank;
It takes a lot of guts and grit,
For lack of which I thank
The gods: a chap 'twould make of me
You wouldn't ask to tea.
I do not mean a burglar cove
Who climbs into a house,
From room to room flash-lit to rove
As quiet as a mouse;
Ah no, in Crime he cannot rank
With him who robs a Bank.
Who seemeth not to care a whoop
For danger at its height;
Who handles what is known as 'soup,'
And dandles dynamite:
Unto a bloke who can do that
I doff my bowler hat.
I think he is the kind of stuff
To be a mighty man
In battlefield,--aye, brave enough
The Cross Victorian
To win and rise to high command,
A hero in the land.
What General with all his swank
Has guts enough to rob a Bank!
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEBB FGFGHH IXIXJJ BB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 011101 11011101 111111 01011111 110111 11110101 110101 11111111 110101 11011101 111101 1111101 110111 11011111 0110 10011111 111101 11110111 110101 0101101 010100 11011101 010001 11001111 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 834 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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