Analysis of London Stone
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
WHEN you come to London Town,
(Grieving-grieving!)
Bring your flowers and lay them down
At the place of grieving.
When you come to London Town,
(Grieving-grieving!)
Bow your head and mourn your own,
With the others grieving.
For those minutes, let it wake
(Grieving-grieving!)
All the empty-heart and ache
That is not cured by grieving.
For those minutes, tell no lie:
(Grieving-grieving!)
'Grave, this is thy victory;
And the sting of death is grieving.'
Where's our help, from earth or heaven,
(Grieving-grieving!)
To comfort us for what we've given,
And only gained the grieving.
Heaven's too far and earth too near,
(Grieving-grieving!)
But our neighbour's standing here,
Grieving as we're grieving.
What's his burden every day?
(Grieving-grieving!)
Nothing man can count or weigh,
But loss and love's own grieving.
What is the tie betwixt us two
(Grieving-grieving!)
That must last our whole lives through?
'As I suffer, so do you.'
That may ease the grieving.
Scheme | ABab ABxb cBcb xBxb dBdb xBxb eBeb fBffb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1010 11100111 101110 1111101 1010 1110111 101010 1110111 1010 1010101 1111110 1110111 1010 1111100 00111110 110111110 1010 110111110 0101010 10110111 1010 1101101 101110 11101001 1010 1011111 1101110 11010111 1010 11110111 1110111 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 941 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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