This is an analysis of Dedication by Rudyard Kipling.

To the City of Bombay

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dededX fefe gegege fbfbfb hbhbhb aaaX aiaiai jkjk igiXgeeg
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,6,4,6,6,6,4,6,4,8,
  • Metre: 0010001 0101101 100101 000101 1001001 111111 111111 101111 1101101 1011011 1101011 1011100 110111 1101101 10101101 11100101 111001 11100101 110101 100111 110111 110101 111101 110101 110101 100111 110111 111111 110101 110001 110101 111111 111101 100111 1011001 100001 11110111 1011011 110101 1001001 1111001 0101101 1011101 110111 110111 111111 010001 1111101 100101 100101 111100 110011 1011101 0100101 1111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 11
  • Lines: 56

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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