Analysis of Maternity
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
There once was a Square, such a square little Square,
And he loved a trim Triangle;
But she was a flirt and around her skirt
Vainly she made him dangle.
Oh he wanted to wed and he had no dread
Of domestic woes and wrangles;
For he thought that his fate was to procreate
Cute little Squares and Triangles.
Now it happened one day on that geometric way
There swaggered a big bold Cube.
With a haughty stare and he made that Square
Have the air of a perfect boob;
To his solid spell the Triangle fell,
And she thrilled with love's sweet sickness,
For she took delight in his breadth and height -
But how she adored his thickness!
So that poor little Square just died of despair,
For his love he could not strangle;
While the bold Cube led to the bridal bed
That cute and acute Triangle.
The Square's sad lot she has long forgot,
And his passionate pretensions . . .
For she dotes on her kids-Oh such cute Pyramids
In a world of three dimensions.
Scheme | ABXBCDXD XEAEXFXF ABCBXGXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101101101 0110110 1110100101 1011110 11101101111 10101010 11111111101 1101010 111011110101 110111 1010101111 10110011 111010101 01111110 1110101101 11101110 11110111101 11111110 1011110101 1100110 011111101 01100010 111101111100 00111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 927 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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