Analysis of The Dauber
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
In stilly grove beside the sea
He mingles colours, measures space;
A bronze and breezy man is he,
Yet peace is in his face.
Behold him stand and longly stare,
Till deft of hand and deep of eye
He captures on a canvas square
The joy of earth and sky.
Aloof from servitude and strife,
From carking care and greed apart,
Beneath the blue he lives his life
Of Nature and of Art.
He grieves his pictures must be sold,
Aye, even when his funds are low,
And fat men pay a purse of gold
He sighs to see them go.
My loving toil is of the pen,
Yet while my verse is not unread,
His pictures will be living when
My tropes are dim and dead.
God gives us talents great and small,
And though my rhymes I'll never rue,
Sometimes I wish that after all
I were a dauber too.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 0110101 1101101 01010111 111011 0111011 11110111 11010101 011101 0111001 1110101 01011111 110011 11110111 11011111 01110111 111111 11011101 11111101 11011101 111101 11110101 01111101 01111101 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 797 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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