Analysis of Lottery Ticket
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
'A ticket for the lottery
I've purchased every week,' said she
'For years a score
Though desperately poor am I,
Oh how I've scrimped and scraped to buy
One chance more.
Each week I think I'll gain the prize,
And end my sorrows and my sighs,
For I'll be rich;
Then nevermore I'll eat bread dry,
With icy hands to cry and cry
And stitch and stitch.'
'Tis true she won the premier prize;
It was of formidable size,
Ten million francs.
I know, because the man who sold
It to her splenically told
He got no thanks.
The lucky one was never found,
For she was snugly underground,
And minus breath;
And with that ticket tucked away,
In some old stocking, so they say,
She starved to death.
Scheme | AABCCB DDECCE DDFGGF HHIJJI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010100 110100111 1101 11000111 11110111 111 11111101 01110011 1111 1101111 11011101 0101 11110011 11110001 1101 11010111 11011 1111 01011101 1111010 0101 01110101 01110111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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