Analysis of A Dead Statesman
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
I could not dig; I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 11111111 1111101 11111101 01110111 11111101 11000101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 206 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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