Analysis of Confetti In The Wind
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
He wrote a letter in his mind
To answer one a maid had sent;
He sought the fitting word to find,
As on by hill and rill he went.
By bluebell wood and hawthorn lane,
The cadence sweet and silken phrase
He incubated in his brain
For days and days.
He wrote his letter on a page
Of paper with a satin grain;
It did not ring, so in a rage
He tore it up and tried again.
Time after time he drafted it;
He polished it all through the night;
He tuned and pruned till bit by bit
He got it right.
He took his letter to the post,
Yet long he held it in his hand.
Strangely his mood had veered, almost
Reversed,--he could not understand.
The girl was vague, the words were vain;
April romance had come to grief . . .
He tore his letter up again,--
Oh blest relief!
Scheme | ABABCDCD ECEFGHGH IJIJCKFK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010011 11010111 11010111 11110111 111011 01010101 11011 1101 11110101 11010101 11111001 11110101 11011101 11011101 11011111 1111 11110101 11111011 1011111 0111101 01110101 10011111 11110101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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