This is an analysis of Harp Song Of The Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling.

What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aAA bbb ccc bbb ddd ddd eeeXaAA
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Metre: 1001011010 1011010110 0100111010 111101010 111111010 1011101110 111111011 10111001011 1101101111 110101010 1011101110 1011011110 10011011010 1101001010 11111001010 10111111010 010011010010 01011110010 1111101110 10101111010 01111101010 1101011010 1011010110 0100111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

to, and

Epiphora

in, you

Anadiplosis

sicken