Analysis of Two Words
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
'God' is composed of letters three,
But if you put an 'l'
Before the last it seems to me
A synonym for Hell.
For all of envy, greed and hate
The human heart can hold
Respond unto the devil's bait
Of Gold.
When God created Gold to be
For our adorning fit,
I little think he dreamed that we
Would come to worship it.
But when you ruefully have scanned
The chronicles of Time,
You'll find that lucre lends a hand
To Crime.
So if you are a millionaire,
To be of Heaven sure,
Give every penny you can spare
Unto the sick and poor.
From Gold strike out the evil 'ell,'
And so with letters odd
You can with peace of spirit spell
Just GOD.
Scheme | ABABCDCD AEAEFGFG HXHXBIBI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 111111 01011111 01011 11110101 010111 01100101 11 11010111 1100101 11011111 111101 11110011 010011 1111101 11 1111001 111101 110010111 100101 11110101 011101 11111101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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