Analysis of The Storm Cone
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
This is the midnight-let no star
Delude us-dawn is very far.
This is the tempest long foretold-
Slow to make head but sure to hold
Stand by! The lull 'twixt blast and blast
Signals the storm is near, not past;
And worse than present jeopardy
May our forlorn to-morrow be.
If we have cleared the expectant reef,
Let no man look for his relief.
Only the darkness hides the shape
Of further peril to escape.
It is decreed that we abide
The weight of gale against the tide
And those huge waves the outer main
Sends in to set us back again.
They fall and whelm. We strain to hear
The pulses of her labouring gear,
Till the deep throb beneath us proves,
After each shudder and check, she moves!
She moves, with all save purpose lost,
To make her offing from the coast;
But, till she fetches open sea,
Let no man deem that he is free!
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGXX XXHH XXDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1101111 01111101 11010101 11111111 11011101 10011111 01110100 110011101 111100101 11111101 10010101 11010101 11011101 01110101 01110101 10111101 11011111 0101011 10110111 101100111 11111101 11010101 11110101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 824 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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