Analysis of Each Day A Life
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I count each day a little life,
With birth and death complete;
I cloister it from care and strife
And keep it sane and sweet.
With eager eyes I greet the morn,
Exultant as a boy,
Knowing that I am newly born
To wonder and to joy.
And when the sunset splendours wane
And ripe for rest am I,
Knowing that I will live again,
Exultantly I die.
O that all Life were but a Day
Sunny and sweet and sane!
And that at Even I might say:
"I sleep to wake again."
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFGF HEHG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11110101 110101 11011101 011101 11011101 010101 10111101 110011 010111 011111 10111101 010011 11110101 100101 01110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 532 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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