Analysis of Suppose?
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
It's mighty nice at shut of day
With weariness to hit the hey,
To close your eyes, tired through and through,
And just forget that "you are you."
It's mighty sweet to wake again
When sunshine floods the window pain;
I love in cosy couch to lie,
And re-discover "I am I."
It would be grand could we conceive
A heaven in which to believe,
And in a better life to be be,
Find out with joy "we still are we."
Though we assume with lapsing breath
Eternal is the sleep of death,
Would it not be divinely odd
To wake and find that - "God is God."
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEE FFGG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11011111 11001101 111110101 01011111 11011101 1110101 11010111 01010111 11111101 01001101 000101111 11111111 11011101 01010111 11110101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 532 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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