Analysis of Fi-Fi In Bed
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Up into the sky I stare;
All the little stars I see;
And I know that God is there
O, how lonely He must be!
Me, I laugh and leap all day,
Till my head begins to nod;
He's so great, He cannot play:
I am glad I am not God.
Poor kind God upon His throne,
Up there in the sky so blue,
Always, always all alone . . .
"Please, dear God, I pity You."
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1010111 1010111 0111111 1110111 1110111 1110111 1111101 1111111 1110111 1100111 11101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 340 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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