This is an analysis of Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling.
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,
There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaXbAbBAA ccXdXeeB XXfffffB abgXXggB ggeeXeeBXddaaBAbBAA
- Stanza lengths: 10,8,8,8,19,
- Metre: 101100101010001 101010101111111 101000111010111 10111101011101000 1110101 1010101 111110100010101 1010101 101101 101111101010101 11011101110111 111110111011101 111010100010110 101010101110101 1010110 1110111 101111101111111 1010101 101110111011101 1111011111100110 011011101111011 110010101010101 1000101 0010101 101011101110101 1010101 11111011011101 111110100010101 101010101011101 101101010111011100 1111101 1010101 101110111010101 1010101 111110101110101 101010101010011 1110101001010001 111011101111101 1011101 1111101 101010100010101 1010101 111110101010101 1110110101011101 101011101011110 101100101010101 1010101 1010101 011010101110101 1010101 101101 101111101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
you, to, mandalay, 'er, an', they
Anaphora
come, an'
Epiphora
mandalay, teak, else
