This is an analysis of Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling.
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc dede
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 11011101 11111111 111111010 11110111 01011100 01010101 11111101 11010111 11111111 11011101 11110101 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
an', they, 'e
Anaphora
the, they