Analysis of The Dawn Wind
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
The Fifteenth Century
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and
listen,
You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.
And the trees in the shadow rustle, and the trees in the moonlight
glisten,
And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is
done.
So do the cows in the field. They graze for an hour and lie down,
Dozing and chewing the cud; or a bird in the ivy wakes,
Chirrups one note and is still, and the restless Wind stares on,
Fidgeting far down the road, till, softly, the darkness breaks.
Back comes the Wind full strength with a blow like an angel's
wing,
Gentle but waking the world, as he shouts: "The Sun! The
Sun!"
And the light floods over the fields and the birds begin to sing,
And the Wind dies down in the grass. It is day and his work
is done.
So when the world is asleep, and there seems no hope of her
waking
Out of some long, bad dream that makes her mutter and moan,
Suddenly, all men arise to the noise of fetters breaking,
And every one smiles at his neighbor and tells him his soul is
his own!
Scheme | X XAAXABA XCXC BDXADXA XDEDBE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 001100 1101001011101100 10 1110110111101101 00100110001001 10 0111111111011 1 1101001111110011 100100110100101 1110110010111 10011011100101 110111101111 1 1011001111010 1 001110010010111 00111001111011 11 11011010111110 10 1111111101001 100110110111010 0100111110011111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,060 |
Words | 216 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 4, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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