Analysis of A Pageant of Elizabeth
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Written for "The Pageant of Parliament," 1934
Like Princes crowned they bore them--
Like Demi-Gods they wrought,
When the New World lay before them
In headlong fact and thought.
Fate and their foemen proved them
Above all meed of praise,
And Gloriana loved them,
And Shakespeare wrote them plays!
. . . . . . .
Now Valour, Youth, and Life's delight break forth
In flames of wondrous deed, and thought sublime---
Lightly to mould new worlds or lightly loose
Words that shall shake and shape all after-time!
Giants with giants, wits with wits engage,
And England-England-England takes the breath
Of morning, body and soul, till the great Age
Fulfills in one great chord:--Elizabeth!
Scheme | X ABABACAC XDXD EXEX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101100 1101111 110111 10111011 01101 101111 011111 001011 01111 1 111010111 0111010101 1011111101 1111011101 1011011101 0101010101 11010011011 0101110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 13, 4 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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