This is an analysis of Divided Destinies by Rudyard Kipling.
It was an artless Bandar, and he danced upon a pine,
And much I wondered how he lived, and where the beast might dine,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd Xeff ddcc eegg eeee hhaX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0111010001110101 11110111110111 110101011101101 11010100111101 111010101110101 01111101110101 11110101011111 11110101110111 101010111111100 11011111110101 11011101110011 11101100001010001 101010100010101 11110001111111 11111101110111 11111100111101 101001111110101 11011101110101 11010101110111 11101011011101101 01110101011101 11011011010001 01001111111101 0011010001010101 11101010001010001 11010101110101 101011100110101 10111010101011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, at, my, his
Anaphora
and, i
