Analysis of My Holiday
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I love the cheery bustle
Of children round the house,
The tidy maids a-hustle,
The chatter of my spouse;
The laughter and the singing,
The joy on every face:
With frequent laughter ringing,
O, Home's a happy place!
Aye, Home's a bit of heaven;
I love it every day;
My line-up of eleven
Combine to make it gay;
Yet when in June they're leaving
For Sandport by the sea,
By rights I should be grieving,
But gosh! I just fell free.
I'm left with parting kisses,
The guardian of the house;
The romp, it's true, one misses,
I'm quiet as a mouse.
In carpet slippers stealing
From room to room alone
I get the strangest feeling
The place is all my own.
It seems to nestle near me,
It whispers in my ear;
My books and pictures cheer me,
Hearth never was so dear.
In peace profound I lap me,
I take no stock of time,
And from the dreams that hap me,
I make (like this) a rhyme.
Oh, I'm ashamed of saying
(And think it's mean of me),
That when the kids are staying
At Sandspot on the sea,
And I evoke them clearly
Disporting in the spray,
I love them still more dearly
Because . . . they're far away.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEFCGCG HBHBCICI GXGXGJGJ CGCGGFGF |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1101010 110101 0101010 010111 0100010 0111001 1101010 110101 1101110 1111001 1111010 101111 1101110 11101 1111110 111111 1111010 0100101 0111110 110101 0101010 111101 1101010 011111 1111011 110011 1101011 110111 0101111 111111 0101111 111101 1101110 011111 1101110 11101 0101110 1001 1111110 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,058 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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