This is an analysis of Gentlemen-Rankers by Rudyard Kipling.
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,
To my brethren in their sorrow overseas,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbacaDXDXDEDF XghgiXeX ijijbckc lklkhahaDXDXDEDF
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,8,16,
- Metre: 001000110010001 01100110101 1010001010110001 10100010011 1010001011101110 1111011101 10111111110101 10101010111 111010111 111 110110101 111 100101101 10100100 11101111 111 101011101010101 10101010101 010101001010101 1101111111 1011101001000011 1100010101 1110111011101010 111110111100 001110101011101 1111110111 01010101010111 11110110101 1010111010111010 10100110101 10010101010101110 11101110101 111011101110111 11101010111 101001010010011 1111110111 110101010111010 1100011101 10101011111001101 11111110111 111010111 111 110110101 111 100101101 10100100 11101111 111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
of, to, and, baa, sweet, you, we
Anaphora
to, and, we, our