Analysis of The Prayer
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
My brother kneels, so saith Kabir,
To stone and brass in heathen wise,
But in my brother's voice I hear
My own unanswered agonies.
His God is as his fates assign,
His prayer is all the world's--and mine.
| Scheme | ABACDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111 11010101 10110111 1110100 11111101 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 206 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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