The Five Nations, Volume I
Kipling's sea and empire verse: "The White Man's Burden", "The Bell Buoy", "The Sea and the Hills", "Sussex", "The Song of Diego Valdez".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,567 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 94%). Alliteration runs at 1.30 times what shuffling the words would give (0.38 observed against 0.29 expected). 24% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
The Sea and the Hillsiambic tetrameter · 44 linesThe Bell Buoyiambic tetrameter · 74 linesCruisersanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 48 linesThe Destroyersiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 72 linesWhite Horsesiambic tetrameter · 80 linesThe Second Voyageiambic pentameter · 43 linesThe Dykesiambic tetrameter · 62 linesThe Song of Diego Valdeziambic tetrameter · 112 linesThe Broken Meniambic tetrameter · 72 linesThe Feet of the Young Meniambic tetrameter · 83 linesThe Truce of the Beariambic tetrameter · AABB · 56 linesThe Old Meniambic tetrameter · 40 linesThe Explorertrochaic octameter · 88 linesThe Wage-Slavesiambic tetrameter · 60 linesThe Burialiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 32 linesGeneral Joubert (Died March 27, 1900)iambic pentameter · ABAB · 12 linesThe Palaceiambic tetrameter · AABB · 29 linesSussexiambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 96 linesSong of the Wise Childreniambic tetrameter · ABAB · 36 linesBuddha at Kamakuraiambic tetrameter · AABB · 48 linesThe White Man’s Burdeniambic trimeter · 56 linesPharaoh and the Sergeantiambic tetrameter · 66 linesOur Lady of the Snows (Canadian Preferential Tariff, 1897)iambic tetrameter · 48 lines‘Et Dona Ferentes’trochaic octameter · AABB · 49 linesKitchener’s Schooliambic tetrameter · 58 linesThe Young Queen (The Commonwealth of Australia, Inaugurated New Year’s Day 1901)iambic tetrameter · AABB · 51 linesRimmoniambic tetrameter · ABAB · 52 lines
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