Analysis of Awake To Smile
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
When I blink sunshine in my eyes
And hail the amber morn,
Before the rosy dew-drop dries
With sparkle on the thorn;
When boughs with robin rapture ring,
And bees hum in the may,--
Then call me young, with heart of Spring,
Though I be grey.
But when no more I know the joy
And urgence of that hour,
As like a happy-hearted boy
I leap to land aflower;
When gusto I no longer feel,
To rouse with glad hooray,--
Then call me old and let me steal
From men away.
Let me awaken with a smile
And go to garden glee,
For there is such a little while
Of living left to me;
But when star-wist I frail away,
Lord, let the hope beguile
That to Ecstatic Light I may
Awake to smile.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGDGD HIHIDHDH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 010101 01010111 110101 11110101 011001 11111111 1111 11111101 011110 11010101 11111 1111101 111101 11110111 1101 11010101 011101 11110101 110111 11111101 110101 11010111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 761 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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