This is an analysis of Alnaschar And The Oxen by Rudyard Kipling.
There's a pasture in a valley where the hanging woods divide,
And a Herd lies down and ruminates in peace;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXXXfdfd bgbghehe ihihhXha Xfcfcgdgd
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,9,
- Metre: 101000101010101 101111100001 101010101010111 10110111111 111010101110111 10100011101 11010101010101 11101010001 101010101010101 1101110001 111010100010101 10110010101 001010000010111 0101010101 111011101010001 01101010001 0010101010100101 10111010101 111011111110111 10111110101 101010101010101 1111010111 101010101011101 11101010101 101011101010001 11100110101 11010101000101 001010100111 111011101110101 11101010100 111010111000101 1111011101 101010111011101 00101010111 1011000101010101 10101110111 101011101010101 101001011101 101010101110111 1101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, those, now
Anaphora
now
