Analysis of By the Hoof of the Wild Goat
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed
From the cliff where she lay in the Sun
Fell the Stone
To the Tarn where the daylight is lost,
So she fell from the light of the Sun
And alone!
Now the fall was ordained from the first
With the Goat and the Cliff and the Tarn,
But the Stone
Knows only her life is accursed
As she sinks from the light of the Sun
And alone!
Oh Thou Who hast builded the World,
Oh Thou Who hast lighted the Sun,
Oh Thou Who hast darkened the Tarn,
Judge Thou
The sin of the Stone that was hurled
By the goat from the light of the Sun,
As she sinks in the mire of the Tarn,
Even now--even now--even now!
Scheme | abcabC abcabC abbdabbd |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 10110111 101111001 101 10110111 111101101 001 101101101 101001001 101 1100111 111101101 001 1111101 11111001 11111001 11 01101111 101101101 111001101 101101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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