Analysis of Barrack-Room Ballads
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
'E went an' took -- the same as me!
The market-girls an' fishermen,
The shepherds an' the sailors, too,
They 'eard old songs turn up again,
But kep' it quiet -- same as you!
They knew 'e stole; 'e knew they knowed.
They didn't tell, nor make a fuss,
But winked at 'Omer down the road,
An' 'e winked back -- the same as us!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101111 11111111 11111110 11110111 01011100 01010101 11111101 11110111 11111111 11011101 11110101 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 494 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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