Analysis of Brookland Road
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
I was very well pleased with what I knowed,
I reckoned myself no fool --
Till I met with a maid on the Brookland Road,
That turned me back to school.
Low down-low down!
Where the liddle green lanterns shine --
O maids, I've done with 'ee all but one,
And she can never be mine!
'Twas right in the middest of a hot June night,
With thunder duntin' round,
And I see her face by the fairy-light
That beats from off the ground.
She only smiled and she never spoke,
She smiled and went away;
But when she'd gone my heart was broke
And my wits was clean astray.
O, stop your ringing and let me be --
Let be, O Brookland bells!
You'll ring Old Goodman out of the sea,
Before I wed one else!
Old Goodman's Farm is rank sea-sand,
And was this thousand year;
But it shall turn to rich plough-land
Before I change my dear.
O, Fairfield Church is water-bound
From autumn to the spring;
But it shall turn to high hill-ground
Before my bells do ring.
O, leave me walk on Brookland Road,
In the thunder and warm rain --
O, leave me look where my love goed,
And p'raps I'll see her again!
Low down -- low down!
Where the liddle green lanterns shine --
O maids, I've done with 'ee all but one,
And she can never be mine!
Scheme | abab cDED fgfg hihi jxjx klkl gmgm axax cDED |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (78%) |
Metre | 1110111111 110111 1111011011 111111 1111 10101101 111111111 0111011 1100110111 11011 0110110101 111101 110101101 110101 11111111 0111101 111100111 11111 111101101 011111 1111111 011101 11111111 011111 1111101 110101 11111111 011111 1111111 0010011 11111111 01111001 1111 10101101 111111111 0111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,177 |
Words | 239 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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