Analysis of The Decline of the West
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan
brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the
Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of
the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the
East."
| Scheme | ABCBDECE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110111100100 1 101010010010110 101 00110110111011 0101 001010111111100 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 309 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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