Analysis of Romulus and Remus
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care--
When first he planned his home,
What City should arise and bear
The weight and state of Rome.
A shiftless, westward-wandering tramp,
Checked by the Tiber flood,
He reared a wall around his camp
Of uninspired mud.
But when his brother leaped the Wall
And mocked its height and make,
He guessed the future of it all
And slew him for its sake.
Swift was the blow--swift as the thought
Which showed him in that hour
How unbelief may bring to naught
The early steps of Power.
Foreseeing Time's imperilled hopes
Of Glory, Grace, and Love--
All singers, Caesars, artists, Popes--
Would fail if Remus throve,
He sent his brother to the Gods,
And, when the fit was o'er,
Went on collecting turves and clods
To build the Wall once more!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IXXX XHIX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11010111 111111 11010101 010111 010101001 110101 11010111 10101 11110101 011101 11010111 011111 11011101 1110110 111111 0101110 010111 110101 11010101 111101 11110101 0101110 11010101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 758 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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