Analysis of Lispeth
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these
You bid me please?
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so!
To my own Gods I go.
It may be they shall give me greater ease
Than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
| Scheme | AABBAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111111 1111 0101010111 111111 1111111101 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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