Analysis of Old Fighting-Men
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
All the world over, nursing their scars,
Sit the old fighting-men broke in the wars--
Sit the old fighting-men, surly and grim
Mocking the lilt of the conquerors' hymn.
Dust of the battle o'erwhelmed them and hid.
Fame never found them for aught that they did.
Wounded and spent to the lazar they drew,
Lining the road where the Legions roll through.
Sons of the Laurel who press to your meed,
(Worthy God's pity most--you who succeed!)
Ere you go triumphing, crowned, to the stars,
Pity poor fighting-men, broke in the wars!
Scheme | ABCC DDEE DXAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
Metre | 101101011 1011011001 1011011001 1001101001 110101101 1101111111 1001101011 1001101011 1101011111 1011011101 11111101 1011011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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