This is an analysis of How Fear Came by Rudyard Kipling.

The stream is shrunk--the pool is dry,
And we be comrades, thou and I;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaddaaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 01010101 11011111 01011101 110010101 11110111 01010111 11010111 01111111 10110101 01110101 01111111 11011111 11010101 011111010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the