Analysis of Yet At the Last
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Yet at the last, ere our spearmen had found him,
Yet at the last, ere a sword-thrust could save,
Yet at the last, with his masters around him,
He spoke of the Faith as a master to slave.
Yet at the last, though the Kafirs had maimed him,
Broken by bondage and wrecked by the reiver,
Yet at the last, tho' the darkness had claimed him,
He called upon Allah, and died a Believer!
| Scheme | ABABACAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101111 1101101111 11011110011 11101101011 1101101111 1011001101 11011010111 110110010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 385 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 288 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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