This is an analysis of Army Headquarters by Rudyard Kipling.
Old is the song that I sing --
Old as my unpaid bills --…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdd eeXb aaff XfeX eecX ggee fXff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1001111 111011 1101011001 1111011101 0101010001000010 110000101010101 01110100010101 11111100111111 11010100010101 11010100010101 010001010101100 1010101010101010 111111010111001 1101010010001 11010111110001 01010001110011 101010101010101 101010001010101 01000101010101 010111010100100 01010101110101 11100001111111 11010101010101 0101010101101110 1101001001101011 111111011111111 010111011101001 11010101110101 11010101010111 01010101001100 1101010011101 101010100010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
old, as, his, at, him, they, and
Anaphora
old, he, they, and
Epiphora
him
