Analysis of The Children's Song
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee
Our love and toil in the years to be;
When we are grown and take our place
As men and women with our race.
Father in Heaven who lovest all,
Oh, help Thy children when they call;
That they may build from age to age
An undefiled heritage.
Teach us to bear the yoke in youth,
With steadfastness and careful truth;
That, in our time, Thy Grace may give
The Truth whereby the Nations live.
Teach us to rule ourselves alway,
Controlled and cleanly night and day;
That we may bring, if need arise,
No maimed or worthless sacrifice.
Teach us to look in all our ends
On Thee for judge, and not our friends;
That we, with Thee, may walk uncowed
By fear or favour of the crowd.
Teach us the Strength that cannot seek,
By deed or thought, to hurt the weak;
That, under Thee, we may possess
Man's strength to comfort man's distress.
Teach us Delight in simple things,
And Mirth that has no bitter springs;
Forgiveness free of evil done,
And Love to all men 'neath the sun!
Land of our Birth, our faith, our pride,
For whose dear sake our fathers died;
Oh, Motherland, we pledge to thee
Head, heart and hand through the years to be!
Scheme | AABB CCXX DDXX XEXX FFEX GGHH IIJJ KKAA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (63%) |
Metre | 111011111 1010100111 111101101 110101101 10010111 11110111 11111111 11100 11110101 1100101 101011111 01010101 11110011 01010101 11111101 1111010 111101101 111101101 1111111 1111101 11011101 11111101 11011101 11110101 11010101 01111101 01011101 01111101 11101101101 111110101 1101111 110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,132 |
Words | 222 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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