This is an analysis of Cells by Rudyard Kipling.

I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button-stick:
I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aababCCXXCCXX ddeae cXdd ccffCCXXCCXX
  • Stanza lengths: 13,5,4,12,
  • Metre: 10110001010110101 10111101110110101 1111110101110101 101001101001 11001001 001011011011 101001001 10111110101 1101010010 11101001 1111001 10111110101 1101010010 110101101101011 10111101100111111 1111101011111001 1110100101 10100101 1111001011100101 111111111111101 11111101011101 11111101011111101 1111101011100101 011110101011111 11110101110101 111100001111111001 001011011011 101001001 10111110101 1101010010 11101001 1111001 10111110101 1101010010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

i've, like, and, that, o', my, i

Anaphora

i've, and

Epiphora

guard