Analysis of Common Form
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
If any questions
why we died,
Tell them,
because our fathers lied.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 11010 111 11 0110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 71 |
| Words | 14 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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