This is an analysis of A Departure by Rudyard Kipling.
Since first the White Horse Banner blew free,
By Hengist's horde unfurled,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcX bcbcbdbX bdbdedeX ababdddX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 110111011 110101 10111111 0011101 101101110101 10010101 111111001 1001011 111100111 110101 111100111 1110111 10010100111 10010111 10101111 1001011 010100111 010101 11110100101 1010101 1001011111 110101 11111111 1001010 100111001 1010101 10011111 1110111 100111001 110111 10101101 1001010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
to
Anaphora
the