Analysis of A Cabbage Patch



Folk ask if I'm alive,
          Most think I'm not;
Yet gaily I contrive
          To till my plot.
The world its way can go,
          I little heed,
So long as I can grow
          The grub I need.

For though long overdue,
          The years to me,
Have taught a lesson true,
          --Humility.
Such better men than I
          I've seen pass on;
Their pay-off when they die;
          --Oblivion.

And so I mock at fame,
          With books unread;
No monument I claim
          When I am dead;
Contented as I see
          My cottage thatch
That my last goal should be
          --A cabbage patch.


Scheme ABABCDCD EFEFGXGX HIHIFJFJ
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 1111 110101 1111 011111 1101 111111 0111 111101 0111 110101 0100 110111 1111 111111 0100 011111 1101 110011 1111 010111 1101 111111 0101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 591
Words 100
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 121
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Robert William Service

Robert William Service was a poet and writer sometimes referred to as the Bard of the Yukon He is best-known for his writings on the Canadian North including the poems The Shooting of Dan McGrew The Law of the Yukon and The Cremation of Sam McGee His writing was so expressive that his readers took him for a hard-bitten old Klondike prospector not the later-arriving bank clerk he actually was Robert William Service was born 16 January 1874 in Preston England but also lived in Scotland before emigrating to Canada in 1894 Service went to the Yukon Territory in 1904 as a bank clerk and became famous for his poems about this region which are mostly in his first two books of poetry He wrote quite a bit of prose as well and worked as a reporter for some time but those writings are not nearly as well known as his poems He travelled around the world quite a bit and narrowly escaped from France at the beginning of the Second World War during which time he lived in Hollywood California He died 11 September 1958 in France Incidentally he played himself in a movie called The Spoilers starring John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich more…

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