Analysis of James I
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
The child of Mary Queen of Scots,
A shifty mother's shiftless son,
Bred up among intrigues and plots,
Learned in all things, wise in none.
Ungainly, babbling, wasteful, weak,
Shrewd, clever, cowardly, pedantic,
The sight of steel would blanch his cheek,
The smell of baccy drive him frantic.
He was the author of his line--
He wrote that witches should be burnt;
He wrote that monarchs were divine,
And left a son who--proved they weren't!
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111 01010101 11010101 1011101 010100101 110100010 01111111 01111110 11010111 11110111 1111001 010111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 443 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 341 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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