This is an analysis of Et Dona Ferentes by Rudyard Kipling.
In extended observation of the ways and works of man,
From the Four-mile Radius roughly to the Plains of Hindustan:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh bbXd ggcX ggdd iidd bbff XabbXdddd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 001010100011101 0011100100010101 111010101010101 10101010101101 111001101110101 101010101111111 111011101110111 101010101010101 101010101010111 101111101011101 101111101110101 01011101010101 101001101011101 1010100101010101 1010001000010001 101111101110101 101010101110101 110010001010101 101010100110110 101010101111001 111010101111111 111110101110001 101110101010101 110101101011110111 1011111011100111 101111101011101 101011001111111 101010101011111 101100101010101 1010101001110101 111011101010101 1011000101111111 111010101010101 01100101010011 101110101011101 111110101011101 101010101010010 110111011110111 101110101010101 101110101010101 11010101010111 11010101011101 101101101010101 11011101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, till, men, when, to
Anaphora
till, then, when