This is an analysis of In Error by Rudyard Kipling.

They burnt a corpse upon the sand--
The light shone out afar;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xababb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 11010101 011101 01010101 110101 100101001101 1101010011
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6