Analysis of The Four Points
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Ere stopping or turning, to put forth a hande
Is a charm that thy daies may be long in the land.
Though seventy-times-seven thee Fortune befriend,
O'ertaking at corners is Death in the end.
Sith main-roads for side-roads care nothing, have care
Both to slow and to blow when thou interest there.
Drink as thou canst hold it, but after is best;
For Drink with men's Driving makes Crowners to Quest.
| Scheme | AA AA BB AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 11011011101 101111111001 110011011001 111011001 11111111011 11101111101 11111111011 1111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 411 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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