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

Once red ripple came to land
In the golden sunset burning--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab ccXX dedX ccXX cXcXXaaae
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1110101 00101110 1010101 101010 11011101 1010111 100100101 1001111100 10110111 10001110 1011101 1010100 11011101 1010101 101100101 1001111100 10110111 101110100 1010101 101010 11011101 1011111 1010101 10101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, wait, ripple

Anaphora

wait