Analysis of Prelude
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
In deaths ye died I have watched beside,
And the lives ye led were mine.
Was there aught that I did not share
In vigil or toil or ease, --
One joy or woe that I did not know,
Dear hearts across the seas?
I have written the tale of our life
For a sheltered people's mirth,
In jesting guise -- but ye are wise,
And ye know what the jest is worth.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101101 11111001 011111101 0011101 11111111 0101111 111111111 110101 1110011101 1010101 0111111 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 409 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
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 April 25, 2023
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