This is an analysis of As The Bell Clinks by Rudyard Kipling.
As I left the Halls at Lumley, rose the vision of a comely
Maid last season worshipped dumbly, watched with fervor from afar;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababb cbXbb XbXbb XbXbb cbXbb dbXbb abXbb dbXbb
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 1110111010100010 111010101010001 1110101000111110 111011101010101 111100101010101 1110101010101010 1010011010101001 0010100010100011 111010101010101 101011101010101 111011101011101100 11010111110111 11101010111110100 101101011010100101 10011111001010101 1011101011111000 1011111011101101 1010111111101111 01011001001010101 1111001001110101 1010111110101010 001011111111111 1110101101001101000 10110101001010101 100101100011100101 1010111010111010 101010101110111 1110101011111111 101101011010010101 1010101101010101 01101001110001010 111011101110101 10100100101011000 10110111001010101 10111111101010101 1010101010101010 111010100010111 1010111011101010 001000100010101 11111110010010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
by, to, on, and, it
Anaphora
played
Epiphora
bar