Analysis of The Consolations of Memory
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Circa 1904 -- Done out of Boethius by Geoffrey Chaucer
Blessed was our first age and morning-time. Then were no
waies tarren, ne no cars numberen, but each followed his owne
playing-busyness to go about singly or by large interspaces,
for to leden his viage after his luste and layen under clene hedge.
Jungling there was not, nor the overtaking wheele, and all those
now cruel clarions were full-hushed and full-still. Then nobile
horses, lest they should make the chariots moveable to run by
cause of this new feare, we did not press, and were apayed by
sweete thankes of him that drave. There was not cursings ne
adventure of death blinded bankes betweene, but good-fellowship
of yoke-mates at ignorance equal, and a one pillar of dust cov-
ered all exodus.... But, see now how the blacke road hath
strippen herself of hearte and beauty where the dumbe lampe of
Tartarus winketh red, etc.
Scheme | X AABXBXCCXXDXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111010 1110110101101 111111111011 1011101101111 111111011011011 1111101001011 1101011011110 10111101001111 1111111110011 11111111111 0101110111110 11111001000110111 1110011110111 1011101010111 111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 885 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 47 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 354 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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