This is an analysis of England's Answer by Rudyard Kipling.

Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban;
Little used to lie down at the bidding of any man.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbbbccdXddeeddffddggffhhddaa
  • Stanza lengths: 30,
  • Metre: 10110011001101 10101110100101 10011111001111 111110111100 1011111011110 1111110111111010 110101110111 1111101111111 1111101110101 11110101101100 100101100101 1101110111101 1111010100101 110001101101001 10101101110101 1111100111111101 001010101011101 11110101010111 110111110111 1011111011001011 0101011110101 0101011110101 011111011111110 01111001111101 11110110111101 10010010011111 1011101101011 1001111110101 1011101100111 111010111100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

of, to, my, not, that, for, and, your

Anaphora

this