Analysis of In Error
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
They burnt a corpse upon the sand--
The light shone out afar;
It guided home the plunging dhows
That beat from Zanzibar.
Spirit of Fire, where'er Thy altars rise,
Thou art the Light of Guidance to our eyes!
Scheme | ABCBDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 011101 11010101 11110 10110101101 11011101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 209 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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