Analysis of Two Children
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Give me your hand, oh little one!
Like children be we two;
Yet I am old, my day is done
That barely breaks for you.
A baby-basket hard you hold,
With in it cherries four:
You cherish them as men do gold,
And count them o'er.
And then you stumble in your walk;
The cherries scattered lie.
You pick them up with foolish talk
And foolish glad am I,
When you wipe one quite clean of dust
And give it unto me;
So in the baby-basket just
Are three.
All this is simple, I confess,
A moment piled with peace;
Yet loving men have died for less,
And will till time shall cease. . . .
A silken hand in crinkled one--
O Little Innocence!
O blessed moment in the son
E'er I go hence!
Scheme | ABABCXCX DEDEFGFG HIHIAXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 110111 11111111 110111 01010111 101101 11011111 01110 01110011 010101 11111101 010111 11111111 011101 10010101 11 11110101 010111 11011111 011111 0101011 110100 1110001 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 745 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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