This is an analysis of Azrael's Count by Rudyard Kipling.
Lo! The Wild Cow of the Desert, her yeanling estrayed from her --
Lost in the wind-plaited sand-dunes -- athirst in the maze of them.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacXcXaaaXcd XXcbe eaeXaeXcced
- Stanza lengths: 14,5,11,
- Metre: 1011001001010000 100110111000100 111101110110100 010110110110100 10111011101001 101100001010110101 10110010100101 1011011011011 11111001100100 1011101101100 1001111101100 111110100100100 1011010110100 1001011100101 11010010111100 101010111111110 10010011100100 10010011111100 10110010111101 101100101101101 110110110100110 1010101010111100 1111111101100 10111111110010 1011001111111 11111011111100 110100100101100 1101111100110 1001001100101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
her, of, she, open, lo
Anaphora
shrinking, yet, lo
Epiphora
them, her, it
