Analysis of The Other Man
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
When the earth was sick and the skies were grey,
And the woods were rotted with rain,
The Dead Man rode through the autumn day
To visit his love again.
His love she neither saw nor heard,
So heavy was her shame;
And tho' the babe within her stirred
She knew not that he came.
| Scheme | AXAX BCBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1011100101 00101011 011110101 1101101 11110111 110101 01010101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 276 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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