This is an analysis of A Counting-Out Song by Rudyard Kipling.
What is the song the children sing,
When doorway lilacs bloom in Spring,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcXDXXDX eeffgghhDXXDX ccffhhiiDXXDX hhjjffkkDXXDX jjjXccllDXXdX mmffbbXXdXXXdX
- Stanza lengths: 13,13,13,13,13,14,
- Metre: 10010101 111111001 1011110111 1010101111 10100111 101011001 1011101101 0010011110100 10100111 10010101 1110111 1111 101100 11111 0011100101 101001101001 110100101 11100100111 01001001001 101111111 1110101111 10100111 100101010 10110101 1111 101100 11010101 10101111 1100100101 011100101 10100101 111011001 1011111101 11100100 10010111 10111010 10110101 1111 101100 10101111 110100101 11101111 111100101 011101111 11111111 0010100101 001001111011 10100111 10010111 010010101 1111 101100 110110111 011100101 110110111 010110100 11110111 011111101 11001001101 0100100101 10010111 10010101 10111110 101111 101100 1001011001 10101001001 1101011001 0101001011 110110101 010110111 1100110101 1011111110 1110111 101101110 10110101 100111101 101111 101100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 79
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, it, or, you
Anaphora
i, and
Epiphora
i
Anadiplosis
i
