Analysis of Servant Girl and Grocer's Boy

Joyce Kilmer 1886 (New Brunswick) – 1918 (Seringes-et-Nesles)



Her lips' remark was: "Oh, you kid!"
Her soul spoke thus (I know it did):

"O king of realms of endless joy,
My own, my golden grocer's boy,

I am a princess forced to dwell
Within a lonely kitchen cell,

While you go dashing through the land
With loveliness on every hand.

Your whistle strikes my eager ears
Like music of the choiring spheres.

The mighty earth grows faint and reels
Beneath your thundering wagon wheels.

How keenly, perilously sweet
To cling upon that swaying seat!

How happy she who by your side
May share the splendors of that ride!

Ah, if you will not take my hand
And bear me off across the land,

Then, traveller from Arcady,
Remain awhile and comfort me.

What other maiden can you find
So young and delicate and kind?"

Her lips' remark was: "Oh, you kid!"
Her soul spoke thus (I know it did).


Scheme AA bb cc dd ee ff gg hh dd ax ii AA
Poetic Form
Metre 01011111 01111111 11111101 11110101 11010111 01010101 11110101 1111001 11011101 1101011 01011101 011100101 11010001 11011101 11011111 1101111 11111111 01110101 110011 01010101 11010111 11010001 01011111 01111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 807
Words 156
Sentences 11
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 52
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees", which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. more…

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