Analysis of Seven Watchmen
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower,
Watching what had come upon mankind,
Showed the Man the Glory and the Power,
And bade him shape the Kingdom to his mind.
"All things on Earth your will shall win you."
('Twas so their council ran)
" But the Kingdom--the Kingdom is within you,"
Said the Man's own mind to the Man.
For time--and some time--
As it was in the bitter years before
So it shall be in the over-sweetened hour--
That a man's mind is wont to tell him more
Than Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower.
| Scheme | ABABCDCDEFAFA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010100010 101110111 1010100010 0111010111 111111111 111101 10100101011 10111101 11011 1110010101 111100101010 1011111111 11010100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 500 |
| Words | 100 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 383 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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