Analysis of William Montgomery Clemens, 1860-1931
He was a genealogist.
Newspaper guy.
Biographer.
Nephew of Mark Twain. Samuel Clemens.
The oldest book in
My possession is his creation, 1899.
“A Ken of Kipling.”
In it he describes Rudyard Kipling’s
Intense yearning for knowledge.
Interviewed by uncle Samuel, rookie columnist.
Animals, jungle atmosphere, dangers
Dialects, soldier life, Empire.
A huge legacy of
Colloquial brilliance.
Tommy do this
Tommy do that
For sake of your Queen and Country.
Though getting little credit for the doing
And few bob.
Nature and jungle
Mystifying
Readers in cities, factories
Households.
Smoky and gray.
Taken away with
Mowgli, Gunga Din, Road to Mandalay
and the like.
Twain saw Kipling as
The greatest of souls.
Humble, inquisitive, happy.
Scheme | AXBC XXDCXAXB XXXAEDX XDXXFXFX XXE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (37%) Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 1101 101 0100 101111010 01010 101011010 01110 01101101 0110110 101101010100 100101010 10101100 011001 010010 1011 1011 11111010 11010101010 011 10010 100 10010100 1 1001 10011 1111110 001 11101 01011 10010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 741 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 7, 8, 3 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Written on April 30, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 30, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on April 30, 2023
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