This is an analysis of Mary, Pity Women! by Rudyard Kipling.

You call yourself a man,
For all you used to swear,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC ddcC XaXaacaC XXXX ececcccC aaXX bbbbbcXC cCff
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,8,4,8,4,8,4,
  • Metre: 111001 111101 111111 110101 111111 110111 111101 111111 11010110010 11111010110 1011101010111 101010101011 0101101 010011 111101 100101 111111 011101 111101 111111 101010101011 111010101101 100110101011 101010101111 111110 111101 110101 101001 111101 111111 110111 111111 1011100111110 11111101110 101111101100 101010111010 110111 110111 111111 111001 110111 011101 110011 111111 1001101010111 101010101011 111100110110 101010111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 48

Repeated words/phrases

you, i, it, 'im

Anaphora

an'

Epiphora

you, 'im