This is an analysis of L'Envoi To "Life's Handicap" by Rudyard Kipling.

My new-cut ashlar takes the light
Where crimson-blank the windows flare;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac dXde dcdc fgfg ehehXcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 11110101 11010101 11110101 110101111 01000111 11010101 11110111 11110101 11010101 11100010 01100101 01110100 11110101 11000101 100110011 11010101 011101010 01010111 110111010 11011101 11011001 01110011 00011111 11110111 11110011 11001111 11011101 11111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

my, i, thee, to, thy

Anaphora

the, thou