Analysis of The Craftsman
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid,
He to the overbearing Boanerges
Jonson, uttered (if half of it were liquor,
Blessed be the vintage!)
Saying how, at an alehouse under Cotswold,
He had made sure of his very Cleopatra,
Drunk with enormous, salvation-con temning
Love for a tinker.
How, while he hid from Sir Thomas's keepers,
Crouched in a ditch and drenched by the midnight
Dews, he had listened to gipsy Juliet
Rail at the dawning.
How at Bankside, a boy drowning kittens
Winced at the business; whereupon his sister--
Lady Macbeth aged seven--thrust 'em under,
Sombrely scornful.
How on a Sabbath, hushed and compassionate--
She being known since her birth to the townsfolk--
Stratford dredged and delivered from Avon
Dripping Ophelia
So, with a thin third finger marrying
Drop to wine-drop domed on the table,
Shakespeare opened his heart till the sunrise--
Entered to hear him.
London wakened and he, imperturbable,
Passed from waking to hurry after shadows . . .
Busied upon shows of no earthly importance?
Yes, but he knew it!
Scheme | ABCX ADEC BXXE BCCF XEXD EFBX FBBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 11010101 10101111010 11010 101111101 11111110010 1101001011 11010 11111110010 100101101 111101110 11010 111011010 11010101110 10011101110 110 11010100100 1101101101 1010010110 10010 1101110100 111111010 11011101 10111 101011 1110110101 100111110010 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,024 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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