Analysis of Four-Feet
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
I have done mostly what most men do,
And pushed it out of my mind;
But I can't forget, if I wanted to,
Four-Feet trotting behind.
Day after day, the whole day through --
Wherever my road inclined --
Four-feet said, "I am coming with you!"
And trotted along behind.
Now I must go by some other round, --
Which I shall never find --
Somewhere that does not carry the sound
Of Four-Feet trotting behind.
| Scheme | ABAB ABAB CBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111101111 0111111 1110111101 111001 11010111 0101101 111111011 0100101 111111101 111101 11111001 1111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 397 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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