Analysis of The Playmate
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
She is not Folly -- that I know.
Her steadfast eyelids tell me so
When, at the hour the lights divide,
She steals as summonsed to my side.
When, finger on the pursed lip
In secret, mirthful fellowship,
She, heralding new -- framed delights,
Breathes, "This shall be a Night of Nights!"
Then, out of Time and out of Space,
Is built an Hour and a Place
Where all an earnest, baffled Earth
Blunders and trips to make us mirth;
Whence from the trivial flux of Things,
Rise inconceived miscarryings,
Outrageous but immortal, shown,
Of Her great love, to me alone...
She is not Wisdom, but, maybe,
Wiser than all the Norns is She:
And more than Wisdom I prefer
To wait on Her, -- to wait on Her!
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF XDGG HHII |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111 011111 110100101 11110111 1101011 010110 11001101 11110111 11110111 11110001 11110101 10011111 110100111 111 01010101 10111101 11110110 10110111 01110101 11101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 679 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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