Analysis of No Sourdough
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
To be a bony feed Sourdough
You must, by Yukon Law,
Have killed a moose,
And robbed a sluice,
AND BUNKED UP WITH A SQUAW. . . .
Alas! Sourdough I'll never be.
Oh, sad is my excuse:
My shooting's so damn bad, you see . . .
I've never killed a moose.
Scheme | XXAAX BABA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 11111 1101 0101 011101 0111101 111101 1111111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 248 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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