Analysis of Kim
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised,
With idiot moons and stars retracting stars?
Creep thou between -- thy coming's all unnoised.
Heaven hath her high, as Earth her baser, wars.
Heir to these tumults, this affright, that fray
(By Adam's, fathers', own, sin bound alway);
Peer up, draw out thy horoscope and say
Which planet mends thy threadbare fate, or mars.
| Scheme | ABACDEDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011010111 11001010101 11011111 10101110101 11111111 110101111 111111001 110111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 369 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 284 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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