Analysis of Mud
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Mud is Beauty in the making,
Mud is melody awaking;
Laughter, leafy whisperings,
Butterflies with rainbow wings;
Baby babble, lover's sighs,
Bobolink in lucent skies;
Ardours of heroic blood
All stem back to Matrix Mud.
Mud is mankind in the moulding,
Heaven's mystery unfolding;
Miracles of mighty men,
Raphael's brush and Shakespear's pen;
Sculpture, music, all we owe
Mozart, Michael Angelo;
Wonder, worship, dreaming spire,
Issue out of primal mire.
In the raw, red womb of Time
Man evolved from cosmic slime;
And our thaumaturgic day
Had its source in ooze and clay . . .
But I have not power to see
Such stupendous alchemy:
And in star-bright lily bud
Lo! I worship Mother Mud.
Scheme | AABBBBCC AADDEEFF GGHHBXCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100010 111001 10101 10111 1010101 10101 110101 1111101 11110010 10100010 1001101 11011 1010111 101010 1010101 1011101 0011111 1011101 01011 1110101 11111011 1010100 0011101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 668 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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