This is an analysis of Cholera Camp by Rudyard Kipling.

We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights;
We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as Isrulites;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbb XXCaaac ddbb eebX ffbb ggbb ffbb Xabb hhbb XXChhXccccca
  • Stanza lengths: 4,7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,12,
  • Metre: 11010001011101 11001000111000 001111011110101 1010101011101 11111101010 01110 0111011010101 01010111011 01011101011 011 1110010011 11010100010011 111111101111111 101111111110101 1011001011101 11110101111101 01111101110111 1110010101110101 10111010111010 11010101111101 01010100110101 110101011001 1111101011101 11011100111111 11010100110110 111111011011 11101101011101 11010111010111 101111111011111 011110100111111 1010111111101 11010110110100 111101011101001 101110101010111 1110101011101 11010001110111 011101010101111 11010100110101 1110101011101 11111101110 01010 0111011010101 10111101110 10110101110 11011111100 1111010101 1101110111 1101110101 1001110111 11111111 111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 51

Repeated words/phrases

an', to, us, it

Anaphora

the, an'

Epiphora

us, it