This is an analysis of How It All Began by Rudyard Kipling.

So we settled it all when the storm was done
As comfy as comfy could be;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11100110111 11011010 1110100111 0111101 1101100101 01111101 111010111 1110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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