Analysis of The Vineyard
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
At the eleventh hour he came,
But his wages were the same
As ours who all day long had trod
The wine-press of the Wrath of God.
When he shouldered through the lines
Of our cropped and mangled vines,
His unjaded eye could scan
How each hour had marked its man.
(Children of the morning-tide
With the hosts of noon died,
And our noon contingents lay
Dead with twilight's spent array.)
Since his back had felt no load ,
Virtue still in him abode;
So he swiftly made his own
Those last spoils we had not won.
We went home delivered thence,
Grudging him no recompense
Till he portioned praise of blame
To our works before he came.
Till he showed us for our good--
Deaf to mirth, and blind to scorn--
How we might have best withstood
Burdens that he had not born!
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF GGXX HHAA IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 100101011 1110001 110111111 01110111 1110101 11010101 11111 11101111 1010101 101111 01010101 111101 1111111 1010101 1110111 1111111 1110101 101110 111111 11010111 11111101 1110111 1111101 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 748 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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