This is an analysis of Helen All Alone by Rudyard Kipling.

There was darkness under Heaven
For an hour's space--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcacA dedecacA fgfgcacA hihicacAXdcdccaccA
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,18,
  • Metre: 11101010 11101 10111110 11101 1111101 11101 11010110 10101 1110111 11111 1110101 10101 1010101 11111 1010110 10101 1010101 10101 1111111 10101 0010101 110101 1011110 10101 11111110 11101 11111010 11101 1111101 011111 1010110 10101 1011101 110101 1010101 111101 1010101 11111 11010110 1110110 10101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 41

Repeated words/phrases

each

Anaphora

helen

Epiphora

did