Analysis of Farewell and adieu....
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Farewell and adieu to you, Harwich Ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you, ladies ashore!
For we've received orders to work to the eastward
Where we hope in a short time to strafe 'em some more.
We'll duck and we'll dive like little tin turtles,
We'll duck and we'll dive underneath the North Seas,
Until we strike something that doesn't expect us.
From here to Cuxhaven it's go as you please!
The first thing we did was to dock in a minefield,
Which isn't a place where repairs should be done;
And there we lay doggo in twelve-fathom water
With tri-nitro-toluol hogging our run.
The next thing we did, we rose under a Zeppelin,
With his shiny big belly half blocking the sky.
But what in the--Heavens can you do with six-pounders?
So we fired what we had and we bade him good-bye.
Farewell and adieu to you, Harwich Ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you, ladies ashore!
For we've received orders to work to the eastward
Where we hope in a short time to strafe 'em some more
Scheme | ABCB xaxa xdxd xexe ABCB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 100111110 1001111001 110110111010 111001111111 11011110110 1101101011 011110110011 111111111 01111111001 11001101111 01111011010 1110110101 0111111100100 111011011001 1100101111110 1110111011111 100111110 1001111001 110110111010 111001111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,034 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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