Analysis of The Last Ode
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Nov. 27, 8 B.C. Horace, BK. V. Ode 31
As watchers couched beneath a Bantine oak,
Hearing the dawn-wind stir,
Know that the present strength of night is broke
Though no dawn threaten her
Till dawn's appointed hour--so Virgil died,
Aware of change at hand, and prophesied
Change upon all the Eternal Gods had made
And on the Gods alike--
Fated as dawn but, as the dawn, delayed
Till the just hour should strike--
A Star new-risen above the living and dead;
And the lost shades that were our loves restored
As lovers, and for ever. So he said;
Having received the word...
Maecenas waits me on the Esquiline:
Thither to-night go I....
And shall this dawn restore us, Virgil mine
To dawn? Beneath what sky?
Scheme | X ABABCC DEDE FXFX GHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 110101011 100111 1101011111 111100 11010101101 011111010 10110010111 010101 1011110101 1011011 011100101001 00111010101 1100110111 100101 111101 11111 0111011101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 691 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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