Analysis of The Miracles
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
I sent a message to my dear --
A thousand leagues and more to Her --
The dumb sea-levels thrilled to hear,
And Lost Atlantis bore to Her.
Behind my message hard I came,
And nigh had found a grave for me;
But that I launched of steel and flame
Did war against the wave for me.
Uprose the deep, by gale on gale,
To bid me change my mind again --
He broke his teeth along my rail,
And, roaring, swung behind again.
I stayed the sun at noon to tell
My way across the waste of it;
I read the storm before it fell
And made the better haste of it.
Afar, I hailed the land at night --
The towers I built had heard of me --
And, ere my rocket reached its height,
Had flashed my Love the word of me.
Earth sold her chosen men of strength
(They lived and strove and died for me)
To drive my road a nation's length,
And toss the miles aside for me.
I snatched their toil to serve my needs --
Too slow their fleetest flew for me --
I tired twenty smoking steeds,
And bade them bait a new for me.
I sent the lightnings forth to see
Where hour by hour She waited me.
Among ten million one was She,
And surely all men hated me!
Dawn ran to meet me at my goal --
Ah, day no tongue shall tell again!
And little folk of little soul
Rose up to buy and sell again!
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HCHC ICIC JCJC CCCC KEKE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11010111 01010110 01110111 01010110 01110111 01110111 11111101 11010111 1011111 11111101 11110111 01010101 11011111 11010111 11010111 01010111 01110111 010111111 01110111 11110111 11010111 11010111 11110101 01010111 11111111 1111111 11010101 01110111 11010111 1101101101 01110111 01011101 11111111 11111101 01011101 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,242 |
Words | 261 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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