Analysis of The Recall
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
I am the land of their fathers,
In me the virtue stays.
I will bring back my children,
After certain days.
Under their feet in the grasses
My clinging magic runs.
They shall return as strangers.
They shall remain as sons.
Over their heads in the branches
Of their new-bought, ancient trees,
I weave an incantation
And draw them to my knees.
Scent of smoke in the evening,
Smell of rain in the night--
The hours, the days and the seasons,
Order their souls aright,
Till I make plain the meaning
Of all my thousand years--
Till I fill their hearts with knowledge,
While I fill their eyes with tears.
Scheme | ABCB DEAE DFCF GHEH GXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11011110 010101 1111110 10101 10110010 110101 1101110 110111 10110010 1111101 1110110 011111 1110010 111001 010010010 10111 1111010 111101 11111110 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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