Analysis of How Fear Came
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
The stream is shrunk--the pool is dry,
And we be comrades, thou and I;
With fevered jowl and dusty flank
Each jostling each along the bank;
And, by one drouthy fear made still,
Forgoing thought of quest or kill.
Now 'neath his dam the fawn may see,
The lean Pack-Wolf as cowed as he,
And the tall buck, unflinching, note
The fangs that tore his father's throat.
The pools are shrunk--the streams are dry,
And we be playmates, thou and I,
Till yonder cloud--Good Hunting!--Loose
The rain that breaks our Water Truce.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEAAFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111 0111101 11010101 110010101 0111111 01011111 11110111 01111111 00110101 01111101 01110111 0111101 11011101 011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 510 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 396 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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