Analysis of Three Friends
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
There were three friends that buried the fourth,
The mould in his mouth and the dust in his eyes,
And they went south and east and north—
The strong man fights but the sick man dies.
There were three friends that spoke of the dead—
The strong man fights but the sick man dies—
"And would he were here with us now," they said,
"The sun in our face and the wind in our eyes."
| Scheme | abaB cBcb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101111001 01011001011 01110101 011110111 101111101 011110111 0110111111 0101010010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 383 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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