This is an analysis of A Ballad Of Burial by Rudyard Kipling.
If down here I chance to die,
Solemnly I beg you take…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXBcXab Xbabcbcb bXbddbdb bebeebeb efeffXXb gagahbhB
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0111101 1001111 11010100 0011111 1110100 0011101 1111111 0011111 0011101 1010101 1100111 1110111 1110100 1010101 1011100 1111111 1010011 101011010 1110101 1001101 1110101 111010001 1110101 1111111 1010101 1010110 1010111 1011101 1011111 1010111 0010111 1111111 1011101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1111111 10101010 111001010 1111111 1110101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1110101 1111101 1111101 0011111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
think, i