Analysis of A Son
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
My son was killed while laughing at some jest, I would
I knew
What it was and it might serve me in a time when jests
are few.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 111111011111 11 1110111100111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 130 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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