Analysis of Evil Land
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
We meet in an evil land
That is near to the gates of hell.
I wait for thy command
To serve, to speed or withstand.
And thou sayest, I do not well?
Oh Love, the flowers so red
Are only tongues of flame,
The earth is full of the dead,
The new-killed, restless dead.
There is danger beneath and o'erhead.
And I guard thy gates in fear
Of words thou canst not hear,
Of peril and jeopardy,
Of signs thou canst not see—
And thou sayest 'tis ill that I came?
Scheme | ABAAB CDCCAXXEED |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1101101 11110111 111101 1111101 0111111 1101011 110111 0111101 011101 11100101 0111101 111111 1100100 111111 01111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 459 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 10 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 172 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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