Analysis of A Regular Sort of a Guy
Eugene O'Neill 1888 (Times Square) – 1953 (Boston)
He fights where the fighting is thickest
And keeps his high honor clean;
From finish to start, he is sturdy of heart,
Shunning the petty and mean;
With his friends in their travail and sorrow,
He is ever there to stand by,
And hark to their plea, for they all know that he
Is a regular sort of a guy.
He cheers up the sinner repentant
And sets him again on his feet;
He is there with a slap, and a pat on the back,
For the lowliest bum on the street;
He smiles when the going is hardest,
With a spirit no money can buy;
And take it from me, we all love him 'cause he
Is a regular sort of a guy.
I don't care for the praise of the nations,
Or a niche in the great hall of fame,
Or that posterity should remember me
When my dust and the dust are the same;
But my soul will be glad if my friends say
As they turn from my bier with a sigh
"Though he left no great name, yet he played out the game
Like a regular sort of a guy."
Scheme | xaxaxbcB xdxdxbcB xecexbeb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010110 0111101 11011111011 1001001 1110101010 11101111 01111111111 101001101 111010010 01101111 111101001101 1011101 111010110 101011011 01111111111 101001101 1111011010 101001111 11010010101 111001101 1111111111 111111101 111111111101 101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 908 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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