Analysis of The Beginner
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
After He Has Been Extemporising On an Instrument Not Of His Own Invention -- Browning
Lo! What is this that I make -- sudden, supreme, unrehearsed --
This that my clutch in the crowd pressed at a venture has raised?
Forward and onward I sprang when I thought (as I ought) I reversed,
And a cab like martagon opes and I sit in the wreckage dazed.
And someone is taking my name, and the driver is rending the air
With cries for my blood and my gold, and a snickering news-boy brings
My cap, wheel-pashed from the kerb. I must run her home for repair,
Where she leers with her bonnet awry--flat on the nether springs!
| Scheme | X ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111111100111101010 11111111001001 11110011101011 1001011111111101 00111101100101 0111011001011001 1111101100100111 111110111101101 111101001110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 614 |
| Words | 118 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 53 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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