Analysis of The Prayer of Miriam Cohen
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
From the wheel and the drift of Things
Deliver us, Good Lord,
And we will face the wrath of Kings,
The faggot and the sword!
Lay not thy Works before our eyes
Nor vex us with thy Wars,
Lest we should feel the straining skies
O'ertrod by trampling stars.
Hold us secure behind the gates
Of saving flesh and bone,
Lest we should dream what Dream awaits
The Soul escaped alone.
Thy Path, thy Purposes conceal
From our beleaguered realm
Lest any shattering whisper steal
Upon us and o'erwhelm.
A veil 'twixt us and Thee, Good Lord,
A veil 'twixt us and Thee--
Lest we should hear too clear, too clear,
And unto madness see!
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE FGFG BHXH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 10100111 010111 01110111 010001 111101101 111111 11110101 11101 11010101 110101 11111101 010101 11110001 1100101 110100101 01101 01110111 011101 11111111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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