This is an analysis of L'Envoi by Rudyard Kipling.
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield,
And the ricks stand gray to the sun,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXXabCB defe bghgdefe aifidefe XahadeffE XXgXdXfe aaiadefffE gjXjdefe jhchdeffE gefeabCBXdefe
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,8,8,9,8,10,8,9,13,
- Metre: 10101011011101 10111001 10100111010111010 111010100 1110100111 10100111 111011111 1110101 110010111 110101 101011011111011 111110110110111 0111100111 1100111 111010010101 1100101 101011011 1010111 101111011111011 111110110110111 0111111011111 1011111 11111011010111 001011 0011100111 1010101 101111011111011 001110110110111 10101010010101 101001001 10101010010101 00100111 1110110111 10100101 111011011111011 111111011 0110111 10101010010101 1010111 10101111010101 10111101 0101111011 01001010 10101101011111011 110110110110111 10101001011111 1010111 11111110010101 00100101 011010111 0010101 101111011 111011 101111011 0110111 101010110100101 110111 101011101010101 1011101 011110111 10111001 111011011111011 110110110110111 111011010101 1010111 10101111011111 1010111 101111111 1100101 11111011111011 11111011 0110111 11011100100001 110111 10101010110101 1010101 1110100111 10100111 111011111 1110101 011111111 10111111 111111011111011 111110110110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 84
Repeated words/phrases
trail, out, to, or, and, her, of, on, it's
Anaphora
or, and, as, it's, they're
Epiphora
trail