Analysis of Deep Sea Cables
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar -
Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are.
There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep,
Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep.
Here in the womb of the world - here on the tie-ribs of earth
Words, and the words of men, flicker and flutter and beat -
Warning, sorrow and gain, salutation and mirth -
For a Power troubles the Still that has neither voice nor feet.
They have wakened the timeless Things; they have killed their father Time
Joining hands in the gloom, a league from the last of the sun.
Hush! Men talk to-day o'er the waste of the ultimate slime,
And a new Word runs between: whispering, 'Let us be one!'
Scheme | AABBCDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010111111101 1101101011011111 1111110110010101 1011101111011101 10011011101111 1001111001001 101001101 101010011110111 11101011111101 10100101101101 111111001101001 00111011001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 296 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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