Analysis of The Rabbi's Song
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
2 Samuel XIV. 14.
If Thought can reach to Heaven,
On Heaven let it dwell,
For fear the Thought be given
Like power to reach to Hell.
For fear the desolation
And darkness of thy mind
Perplex an habitation
Which thou hast left behind.
Let nothing linger after--
No whimpering gost remain,
In wall, or beam, or rafter,
Of any hate or pain.
Cleans and call home thy spirit,
Deny her leave to cast,
On aught thy heirs inherit,
The shadow of her past.
For think, in all thy sadness,
What road our griefs may take;
Whose brain reflect our madness,
Or whom our terrors shake:
For think, lest any languish
By cause of thy distress--
The arrows of our anguish
Fly farther than we guess.
Our lives, our tears, as water,
Are spilled upon the ground;
God giveth no man quarter,
Yet God a means hath found,
Though Faith and Hope have vanished,
And even Love grows dim--
A means whereby His banished
Be not expelled from Him!
Scheme | X ABABACAC DEDEFGFG HIHIJKJK DLDLMNMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 1111110 110111 1101110 1101111 110010 010111 011010 111101 1101010 1100101 0111110 110111 1011110 010111 1111010 01101 1101110 1110111 11011010 1110101 1111010 111101 01011010 110111 101101110 110101 1101110 110111 1101110 010111 0101110 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 887 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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