Analysis of Quiquern
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow--
They beg for coffee and sugar; they go where the white men go.
The People of the Western Ice, they learn to steal and fight;
They sell their furs to the trading-post; they sell their souls to
the white.
The People of the Southern Ice, they trade with the whaler's
crew;
Their women have many ribbons, but their tents are torn and few.
But the People of the Elder Ice, beyond the white man's ken--
Their spears are made of the narwhal-horn, and they are the last
of the Men!
Scheme | AABCBDCCEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101011110101 111100101110111 01010101111101 11111010111111 01 0101010111101 1 110110101111101 101010101010111 1111101101101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 414 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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