Analysis of Heart O' The North
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
And when I come to the dim trail-end,
I who have been Life's rover,
This is all I would ask, my friend,
Over and over and over:
A little space on a stony hill
With never another near me,
Sky o' the North that's vast and still,
With a single star to cheer me;
Star that gleams on a moss-grey stone
Graven by those who love me --
There would I lie alone, alone,
With a single pine above me;
Pine that the north wind whinneys through --
Oh, I have been Life's lover!
But there I'd lie and listen to
Eternity passing over.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EDED FBFB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011110111 1111110 11111111 10010010 010110101 11001011 11011101 10101111 11110111 1011111 11110101 10101011 1101111 1111110 11110101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 551 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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