This is an analysis of If by Rudyard Kipling.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbc dedefcfc cgcgXfaX Xhahifif
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01111111011 1101110011 01111011111 1101011101 011111010110 1101011101 11010111010 1111101111 01111111110 0111111111 01110101010 1111010101 01110101110 1011010111 11011111010 1111010111 01111101110 1101110111 11110111010 1101010111 01111111110 0111110111 11111101001 01001100111 01110111110 1101110101 01011101111 0111011111 01110001001 0101010101 10011101100 1101100111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
you, and, if, can, to, your, with
Anaphora
or, if, and
Epiphora
you