Analysis of The Macaronis
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Italian people peaceful are,--
Let it be to their credit.
They mostly fail to win a war,
--Oh they themselves have said it.
"Allergic we to lethal guns
And military might:
We love our homes and little ones,
And loath to fight."
But Teutons are a warrior race
Who seek the sword to rattle;
And in the sun they claim a place,
Even at price of battle.
The prestige of a uniform
Is sacred in their sight;
They deem that they are soldiers born
And might is right.
And so I love Italians though
Their fighting powers are petty;
My heart with sympathy doth go
To eaters of spaghetti.
And if the choice were left to me,
I know beyond a doubt
A hundred times I'd rather be
A Dago than a Kraut.
Scheme | XXXXABAB CDCDXBXB EFEFFGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010101 1111110 11011101 1101111 01011101 01001 111010101 0111 11101001 1101110 00011101 1011110 0011010 110011 11111101 0111 01110101 11010110 11110011 1101010 01010111 110101 01011101 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 749 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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