Analysis of Book Borrower
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I am a mild man, you'll agree,
But red my rage is,
When folks who borrow books from me
Turn down their pages.
Or when a chap a book I lend,
And find he's loaned it
Without permission to a friend -
As if he owned it.
But worst of all I hate those crooks
(May hell-fires burn them!)
Who beg the loan of cherished books
And don't return them.
My books are tendrils of myself
No shears can sever . . .
May he who rapes one from its shelf
Be damned forever.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11011101 11111 1111111 11110 11010111 01111 01010101 11111 11111111 111011 11011101 01011 111111 11110 11111111 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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