Analysis of The Thorkild's Song
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
There's no wind along these seas,
Out oars for Stavenger!
Forward all for Stavenger!
So we must wake the white-ash breeze,
Let fall for Stavenger!
A long pull for Stavenger!
Oh, hear the benches creak and strain!
(A long pull for Stavenger!)
She thinks she smells the Northland rain!
(A long pull for Stavenger!)
She thinks she smells the Northland snow,
And she's as glad as we to go,
She thinks she smells the Northland rime,
And the dear dark nights of winter-time.
She wants to be at her own home pier,
To shift her sails and standing gear.
She wants to be in her winter-shed,
To strip herself and go to bed,
Her very bolts are sick for shore,
And we-we want it ten times more!
So all you Gods that love brave men,
Send us a three-reef gale again!
Send us a gale, and watch us come,
With close-cropped canvas slashing home!
But--there's no wind on all these seas,
A long pull for Stavenger!
So we must wake the white-ash breeze,
A long pull for Stavenger!
Scheme | abbAbB cBcB dd ee bb ff bb gg ee aBAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 1111 10111 11110111 1111 01111 11010101 01111 1111011 01111 1111011 01111111 1111011 001111101 111110111 11010101 111100101 11010111 01011111 01111111 11111111 11011101 11010111 11110101 11111111 01111 11110111 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 940 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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