Analysis of The Widower
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
For a season there must be pain--
For a little, little space
I shall lose the sight of her face,
Take back the old life again
While She is at rest in her place.
For a season this pain must endure,
For a little, little while
I shall sigh more often than smile
Till time shall work me a cure,
And the pitiful days beguile.
For that season we must be apart,
For a little length of years,
Till my life's last hour nears,
And, above the beat of my heart,
I hear Her voice in my ears.
But I shall not understand--
Being set on some later love,
Shall not know her for whom I strove,
Till she reach me forth her hand,
Saying, "Who but I have the right?"
And out of a troubled night
Shall draw me safe to the land.
Scheme | XAAXA BCCBC DEEDE FXXFGGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101111 1010101 11101101 1101101 11111001 101011101 1010101 11111011 1111101 00100101 111011101 1010111 1111101 00101111 1101011 111101 10111101 11101111 1111101 10111101 0110101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,074 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 7 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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