Analysis of Second Childhood
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Some deem I'm gentle, some I'm kind:
It may be so,--I cannot say.
I know I have a simple mind
And see things in a simple way;
And like a child I love to play.
I love to toy with pretty words
And syllable them into rhyme;
To make them sing like sunny birds
In happy droves with silver chime,
In dulcet groves in summer time.
I pray, with hair more white than grey,
And second childhood coming on,
That yet with wonderment I may
See life as in its lucent dawn,
And be by beauty so beguiled
I'll sing as sings a child.
Scheme | ABABB CDCDD BXBXEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 11111101 11110101 01100101 01011111 11111101 01001011 11111101 01011101 01010101 11111111 0101101 11110011 11101101 01110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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