Analysis of False Dawn
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
To-night, God knows what thing shall tide,
The Earth is racked and fain--
Expectant, sleepless, open-eyed;
And we, who from the Earth were made,
Thrill with our Mother's pain.
| Scheme | ABACB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 11111111 011101 01010101 01110101 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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