Analysis of The Miracle of Purun Bhagat

Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)



The night we felt the earth would move
We stole and plucked him by the hand,
Because we loved him with the love
That knows but cannot understand.

And when the roaring hillside broke,
And all our world fell down in rain,
We saved him, we the Little Folk;
But lo! he does not come again!

Mourn now, we saved him for the sake
Of such poor love as wild ones may.
Mourn ye! Our brother will not wake,
And his own kind drive us away!


Scheme XAXA BXBX CDCD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 01110111 11011101 01111101 1111001 0101011 011011101 11110101 11111101 11111101 11111111 111010111 01111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 424
Words 88
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. more…

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