This is an analysis of A Pict Song by Rudyard Kipling.

Rome never looks where she treads.
Always her heavy hooves fall…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbaba cdcdeded fgfggcgc hihijaja X
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,1,
  • Metre: 1101111 1101011 111011111 11101111 01011101 111001001 11001001 01011111 1101011 11001101 1101111 1111101 1101001 1101101 1101001 1101001 1011011 1101001 1101001 1111111 1111011 111011 1011101 1111011 1011111 1111011 1111001 01101101 1101101 1111101 11101001 11111111 110101110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 33

Repeated words/phrases

our, we, in

Anaphora

and, we