Analysis of Cities and Thrones and Powers
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth,
The Cities rise again.
This season's Daffodil,
She never hears,
What change, what chance, what chill,
Cut down last year's;
But with bold countenance,
And knowledge small,
Esteems her seven days' continuance,
To be perpetual.
So Time that is o'er -kind,
To all that be,
Ordains us e'en as blind,
As bold as she:
That in our very death,
And burial sure,
Shadow to shadow, well persuaded, saith,
"See how our works endure!"
Scheme | ABABCDXD EXEXFXFX GHGHXICI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010 1011 111110 1101 111111 1111 1101011 010101 11010 1101 111111 1111 111100 0101 101010100 110100 1111101 1111 111111 1111 1010101 01001 11110101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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