Analysis of Tranquillity
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Oh if it were not for my wife
And family increase,
How gladly would I close my life
In monastery peace!
A sweet and scented isle I know
Where monks in muteness dwell,
And there in sereness I would go
And seek a cell.
On milk and oaten meal I'd live,
With carrot, kail and cheese;
The greens that tiny gardens give,
The bounty of the bees.
Then war might rage, I would not know,
Or knowing would not care:
No echo of a world of woe
Would irk me there.
And I would be forgotten too
As mankind I forgot;
Read Shakespeare and the Bible through,
And brood in quiet thought.
Content with birds and trees and flowers
In mellow age to find
'Mid monastery's holy hours
God's Peace of Mind.
Scheme | ABABCDCD XEXECFCF GXGXHIHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 010001 11011111 01001 01010111 11011 0101111 0101 1101111 110101 01110101 010101 11111111 110111 11010111 1111 01110101 111101 1100101 010101 101101010 010111 111010 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 784 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 7 |
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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