This is an analysis of Christmas In India by Rudyard Kipling.
Dim dawn behind the tamerisks -- the sky is saffron-yellow --
As the women in the village grind the corn,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdX efefdgcX gbgbebhhb ijijXkik glglchih
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,9,8,8,
- Metre: 110101000101010 10100010101 1010101011100010 10101010101 1011101110100011 10101110 1111101010111010 11110011011 111001000101110 10101010101 11111001110111110 00101010101 1110101011101010 11101110111 0111111010101010 10111101011000 110101000101011 11101010101 1011111011111111 10111010101 101111101010001010 101010111001 111100110 11011010 10111010011 110101000101010 10101010101 1011101110001110 1111101111 1010101010101010 100101110011 0010101000101110 0101111101 110101000101110 10100010111 0010001110100011 11101110101 1011011011101110 10101010011 101011010010101010 11101110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
oh, us, her, behind, and
Anaphora
oh, call
Epiphora
it