This is an analysis of A Dead Statesman by Rudyard Kipling.
I could not dig; I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc
- Stanza lengths: 6,
- Metre: 11111111 11110101 11111101 11110111 11111101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 6
Repeated words/phrases
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