This is an analysis of Beast And Man In India by Rudyard Kipling.
They killed a Child to please the Gods
In Earth's young penitence,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbc ddXd ceXe X caca dbXb X Xbeb eded X Xfef bdgd hihi X aaggXXhhaabXggXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,16,
- Metre: 11010101 011100 111101101 010100 11010101 1111011 11110101 1000101 11010101 010011 1111100101 010101 110 0101010101 1001010111 0101100111 100101 1001110001 11010100101 1101010100 1100101 1100 01110100110 0101000111 0101110100 100101 0111010101 0111010101 0111110100 110001 11000 11000111 101111 101110101 010101 11000111 110101 1101011010 010101 11011111 110111 01011001 011001 1011000 011101 111101 1110010 1001010 1010110 1010010 110111 111101 101101 101101 111101 11101000 10101010 1001110 110111 101011100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 15
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
and, their
Anaphora
the, their
