Analysis of My Bay'nit



When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit
    And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore;
But blimey! I 'aven't been able to stain it,
    So far as I've gone wiv the vintage of war.
For ain't it a fraud! when a Boche and yours truly
    Gits into a mix in the grit and the grime,
'E jerks up 'is 'ands wiv a yell and 'e's duly
    Part of me outfit every time.

Left, right, Hans and Fritz!
Goose step, keep up yer mits!
Oh my, Ain't it a shyme!
Part of me outfit every time.

At toasting a biscuit me bay'nit's a dandy;
    I've used it to open a bully beef can;
For pokin' the fire it comes in werry 'andy;
    For any old thing but for stickin' a man.
'Ow often I've said: "'Ere, I'm goin' to press you
    Into a 'Un till you're seasoned for prime,"
And fiercely I rushes to do it, but bless you!
    Part of me outfit every time.

Lor, yus; DON'T they look glad?
Right O! 'Owl Kamerad!
Oh my, always the syme!
Part of me outfit every time.

I'm 'untin' for someone to christen me bay'nit,
    Some nice juicy Chewton wot's fightin' in France;
I'm fairly down-'earted -- 'ow CAN yer explain it?
    I keeps gettin' prisoners every chance.
As soon as they sees me they ups and surrenders,
    Extended like monkeys wot's tryin' to climb;
And I uses me bay'nit -- to slit their suspenders --
    Part of me outfit every time.

Four 'Uns; lor, wot a bag!
'Ere, Fritz, sample a fag!
Oh my, ain't it a gyme!
Part of me outfit every time.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11111111011 01111111011 111011110111 11111101011 111011010110 10101001001 111111010110 11111001 11101 111111 111101 11111001 11001011010 11111001011 110101101010 1101111101 11011111111 0101111011 010110111111 11111001 111111 1111 11101 11111001 1111110111 111011101 11011111011 1111001001 111111110010 0101101111 0110111111010 11111001 111101 111001 111101 11111001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,413
Words 281
Sentences 24
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 8, 4, 8, 4
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 169
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert William Service

Robert William Service was a poet and writer sometimes referred to as the Bard of the Yukon He is best-known for his writings on the Canadian North including the poems The Shooting of Dan McGrew The Law of the Yukon and The Cremation of Sam McGee His writing was so expressive that his readers took him for a hard-bitten old Klondike prospector not the later-arriving bank clerk he actually was Robert William Service was born 16 January 1874 in Preston England but also lived in Scotland before emigrating to Canada in 1894 Service went to the Yukon Territory in 1904 as a bank clerk and became famous for his poems about this region which are mostly in his first two books of poetry He wrote quite a bit of prose as well and worked as a reporter for some time but those writings are not nearly as well known as his poems He travelled around the world quite a bit and narrowly escaped from France at the beginning of the Second World War during which time he lived in Hollywood California He died 11 September 1958 in France Incidentally he played himself in a movie called The Spoilers starring John Wayne and Marlene Dietrich more…

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