This is an analysis of Angutivaun Taina by Rudyard Kipling.

Our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood,
Our furs with the drifted snow,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb CbcB dbaB XbdB abXBXCbcB
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 111100101 1100101 111000101 0001001 1101101 1010111 1011110111 1001001 111100101 111101 111111101 1101001 111111101 110101 1111111111 1101001 111100101 1100101 111101101 1001001 1101101 1010111 101111111 1001001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

with, and, we, our

Anaphora

our, and, we

Anadiplosis

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