Analysis of Gethsemane
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
The Garden called Gethsemane
In Picardy it was,
And there the people came to see
The English soldiers pass.
We used to pass -- we used to pass
Or halt, as it might be,
And ship our masks in case of gas
Beyond Gethsemane.
The Garden called Gethsemane,
It held a pretty lass,
But all the time she talked to me
I prayed my cup might pass.
The officer sat on the chair,
The men lay on the grass,
And all the time we halted there
I prayed my cup might pass.
It didn't pass -- it didn't pass --
It didn't pass from me.
I drank it when we met the gas
Beyond Gethsemane.
Scheme | AxbccbcA AcbCdcdC cbcA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01011 0111 01010111 010101 11111111 111111 011010111 011 01011 110101 11011111 111111 01001101 011101 01011101 111111 11011101 110111 11111101 011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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