This is an analysis of Mary's Son by Rudyard Kipling.

If you stop to find out what your wages will be
And how they will clothe and feed you,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 011011111000 11101111 1011111101 10101011 0111010010001 110010011 1011111101 1010110011 011001001111 1011111011 1011111011 1110010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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