This is an analysis of By The Hoof Of The Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling.
By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed
From the cliff where she lay in the Sun…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaabaA bXaXaA caXdcaXd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,8,
- Metre: 1010011100 001111001 101 001101101 111001001 101 101101001 001101101 101 110010100 111001001 101 11111001 11111001 11111001 11 01001111 101001001 1110010001 101101101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
and, thou, oh, who, hast, even, now, of
Anaphora
oh
