Analysis of Katie Drummond
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
My Louis loved me oh so well
And spiered me for his wife;
He would have haled me from the hell
That was my bawdy life:
The mother of his bairns to be,
Daftlike he saw in me.
But I, a hizzie of the town
Just telt him we must part;
Loving too well to drag him down
I tore him from my heart:
To save the honour of his name
I went back to my shame.
They say he soared to starry fame,
Romance flowed from his pen;
A prince of poets he became,
Pride of his fellow men:
My breast was pillow for his head,
Yet naught of his I've read.
Smoking my cutty pipe the while,
In howths of Leith I lag;
* My Louis lies in South Sea isle
As I a sodden hag
Live on . . . Oh Love, by men enskied
The day you went--I died.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEFF FGFGHH IJIJEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 011111 11111101 111101 01011111 11101 1101101 111111 10111111 111111 1101111 111111 11111101 011111 01110101 111101 11110111 111111 10110101 011111 11010111 110101 1111111 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 771 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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