Analysis of Faith
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
Since all that is was ever bound to be;
Since grim, eternal laws our Being bind;
And both the riddle and the answer find,
And both the carnage and the calm decree;
Since plain within the Book of Destiny
Is written all the journey of mankind
Inexorably to the end; since blind
And mortal puppets playing parts are we:
Then let's have faith; good cometh out of ill;
The power that shaped the strife shall end the strife;
Then let's bow down before the Unknown Will;
Fight on, believing all is well with life;
Seeing within the worst of War's red rage
The gleam, the glory of the Golden Age.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDCDEE |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 1111110111 11010110101 0101000101 0101000101 1101011100 1101010111 0100010111 0101010111 1111110111 01011011101 1111010011 1101011111 1001011111 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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