This is an analysis of A Boy Scouts' Patrol Song by Rudyard Kipling.
These are our regulations --
There's just one law for the Scout…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXbbbbb cdcdbbbB ededXbfb egegbbbB faffgbgB ahahXbXB
- Stanza lengths: 9,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1111010 1111101 1011011001101 1010100101010 111111 111111 11101110 11101110 1101111 11111101 11101011 10111001 0100101 11111011 11111011 111001011 1010111 11101001 11101001 111111 010101 10101001 101011001 010101 11010111 1111101 11111101 11111111 1101001 101010001 10110001 101011001 1010111 10100111 1011101 1111111 11111011 0111111 1101001 1111001 1010111 1111101 10100101 111111111 111011011 00101001 101001101 1101101100 1010111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 49
Repeated words/phrases
and, you, or, look, out, your, for, that
Anaphora
and, look, for
Epiphora
out