Analysis of My Father's Chair
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Parliaments of Henry III., 1265
There are four good legs to my Father's Chair--
Priests and People and Lords and Crown.
I sits on all of 'em fair and square,
And that is reason it don't break down.
I won't trust one leg, nor two, nor three,
To carry my weight when I sets me down.
I wants all four of 'em under me--
Priests and People and Lords and Crown.
I sits on all four and favours none--
Priests, nor People, nor Lords, nor Crown:
And I never tilts in my chair, my son,
And that is the reason it don't break down.
When your time comes to sit in my Chair,
Remember your Father's habits and rules,
Sit on all four legs, fair and square,
And never be tempted by one-legged stools!
Scheme | x aBab cbcB dbdb aeae |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001101 1111111101 10100101 111111101 011101111 111111111 1101111111 111111101 10100101 11111011 11101111 0110101111 0110101111 111111011 0101101001 11111101 01011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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