Analysis of Tarrant Moss
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
I closed and drew for my love's sake
That now is false to me,
And I slew the Reiver of Tarrant Moss
And set Dumeny free.
They have gone down, they have gone down,
They are standing all arow -
Twenty knights in the peat-water,
That never struck a blow!
Their armour shall not dull nor rust,
Their flesh shall not decay,
For Tarrant Moss holds them in trust,
Until the Judgment Day.
Their soul went from them in their youth,
Ah God, that mine had gone,
Whenas I leaned on my love's truth
And not on my sword alone!
Whenas I leaned on lad's belief
And not on my naked blade -
And I slew a thief, and an honest thief,
For the sake of a worthless maid.
They have laid the Reiver low in his place,
They have set me up on high,
But the twenty knights in the peat-water
Are luckier than I!
And ever they give me gold and praise
And ever I mourn my loss -
For I struck the blow for my false love's sake
And not for the Men of the Moss!
Scheme | ABCB XDDX EFEF GXGX HIHI XJDJ XCAC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 11011111 111111 011011101 0111 11111111 111011 10100110 110101 11011111 111101 11011101 010101 11111011 111111 1111111 0111101 1111101 0111101 0110101101 10110101 111011011 1111111 1010100110 110011 010111101 0101111 1110111111 01101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 907 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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