Analysis of Doctors
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Man dies too soon, beside his works half-planned.
His days are counted and reprieve is vain:
Who shall entreat with Death to stay his hand;
Or cloke the shameful nakedness of pain?
Send here the bold, the seekers of the way--
The passionless, the unshakeable of soul,
Who serve the inmost mysteries of man's clay,
And ask no more than leave to make them whole.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111011111 1111000111 111111111 11010111 1101010101 010010011 1101100111 0111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 361 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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