This is an analysis of A Song Of Kabir by Rudyard Kipling.

Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands!
Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his lands!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb XXbb Xbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11101111001 11001001101 11100111101 101001010001 101101001101 01101011101 0100111101 101001110001 111011101111 111101111110 01101011001 111001110001 01101001001 001001101001 111001011101 10110110010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

his, and, one, has, brother

Anaphora

oh, he