Analysis of A Lover's Journey
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
When a lover hies abroad
Looking for his love,
Azrael smiling sheathes his sword,
Heaven smiles above.
Earth and sea
His servants be,
And to lesser compass round,
That his love be sooner found!
| Scheme | ABCBDDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 10111 110111 10101 101 1101 0110101 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 194 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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