Analysis of The Idiot Boy
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
He wandered down the moutain grade
Beyond the speed assigned--
A youth whom Justice often stayed
And generally fined.
He went alone, that none might know
If he could drive or steer.
Now he is in the ditch, and Oh!
The differential gear!
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101011 010101 01110101 010001 11011111 111111 11100101 00101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 248 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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