This is an analysis of A Legend Of Truth by Rudyard Kipling.
Once on a time, the ancient legends tell,
Truth, rising from the bottom of her well,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeX bbffgg bbhhbbhXX eeaaiiXXbX fXjjdX
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,9,10,6,
- Metre: 1101010101 1100010001 1101110101 0100010101 1101110001 11010010101 1101010001 0111110101 1101010111 1001011111 0111010111 1111011100 1101111111 1111010111 1101111101 1001010101 10110110001 1100010101 11110101001 10011101001 1111110011 1011110111 0111011101 1111010101 101110100101 1111110110 100011111100 1011011101 1101001001 1111111101 1011001101 0101111101 110010001111 11110101011 110110001010 1101010101 1001101011000 1101110101 11010101011 1101010101 0111111111 11011100101 1011111111100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, she, to
Anaphora
she
