Analysis of The Love Song of Har Dyal
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Alone upon the housetops to the North
I turn and watch the lightnings in the sky--
The glamour of thy footsteps in the North.
Come back to me, Beloved, or I die.
Below my feet the still bazar is laid--
Far, far below the weary camels lie--
The camels and the captives of thy raid.
Come back to me, Beloved, or I die!
My father's wife is old and harsh with years,
And drudge of all my father's house am I--
My bread is sorrow and my drink is tears.
Come back to me, Beloved, or I die!
Scheme | abaB cbcB xbxB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010101101 1101010001 010111001 111101111 0111010111 1101010101 0100010111 111101111 1101110111 0111110111 1111001111 111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 480 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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