Analysis of The Wildy Ones
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
The sheep are in the silver wood,
The cows are in the broom;
The goats are in the wild mountain
And won't be home by noon.
My mother sang that olden tune
Most every night,
And to her newest she would croon
By candle light;
While cuddling in the velvet gloom
I'd dream of cows
That sought each dawn 'mid golden broom
To gently browse.
Or I would glimpse the silver wood,
The birchen glade,
Where pearly sheep in quiet mood
Cropped unafraid;
But how I loved in lapsing drowse
The mountain wild!
The goats were more than sheep and cows
To one wee child.
For cows and sheep are shelter-wise,
And love the lea;
While goats have starlight in their eyes,
In cragland free . . .
And now on edge of endless sleep
Wryly I note
How less I'm kin to kine and sheep
Than rebel goat!
Scheme | ABXC CDCDBEBE AFXFEGEG HIHIJKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100101 011001 01100110 011111 11011101 11001 01010111 1101 11000101 1111 11111101 1101 11110101 011 11010101 101 11110101 0101 01011101 1111 11011101 0101 1111011 011 01111101 1011 11111101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 839 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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