Analysis of Young Mother
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Her baby was so full of glee,
And through the day
It laughed and babbled on her knee
In happy play.
It pulled her hair all out of curl
With noisy joy;
So peppy she was glad her girl
Was not a boy.
Then as she longed for it to sleep,
To her surprise
It just relaxed within her keep
With closing eyes.
And as it lay upon her breast
So still its breath,
So exquisite its utter rest
It looked like death.
It seemed like it had slipped away
To shadow land;
With tiny face like tinted clay
And waxen hand.
No ghost of sigh, no living look . . .
Then with an ache
Of panic fear and love she shook
Her babe awake.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH BIBIJKJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111 0101 11010101 0101 11011111 1101 11011101 1101 11111111 1001 11010101 1101 01110101 1111 11001101 1111 11111101 111 11011101 011 11111101 1111 11010111 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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