Analysis of Comfort
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Say! You've struck a heap of trouble --
Bust in business, lost your wife;
No one cares a cent about you,
You don't care a cent for life;
Hard luck has of hope bereft you,
Health is failing, wish you'd die --
Why, you've still the sunshine left you
And the big, blue sky.
Sky so blue it makes you wonder
If it's heaven shining through;
Earth so smiling 'way out yonder,
Sun so bright it dazzles you;
Birds a-singing, flowers a-flinging
All their fragrance on the breeze;
Dancing shadows, green, still meadows --
Don't you mope, you've still got these.
These, and none can take them from you;
These, and none can weigh their worth.
What! you're tired and broke and beaten? --
Why, you're rich -- you've got the earth!
Yes, if you're a tramp in tatters,
While the blue sky bends above
You've got nearly all that matters --
You've got God, and God is love.
Scheme | XABABCBC DBDBXEXE BFXFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 1010111 11101011 1110111 11111011 1110111 1110111 00111 11111110 1110101 11101110 111111 101010010 1110101 101111 1111111 10111111 1011111 111001010 1111101 11101010 1011101 11101110 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 885 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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