This is an analysis of Mulholland's Contract by Rudyard Kipling.
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea,
An' the pens broke up on the lower deck an' let the creatures free --…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd aaa eee bbb ccc ffX ggg hXh ddd bbb iii
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Metre: 01110101011101 1011110101110101 1011110101111111 1101000010101 10101001000100101 110110101110111 1111110010111 101011101101001 11111100111101101 11010011111101 01110101110101 11010100110101 11100101111001 1111111011011101 1011111011110110 1101101011101011 111111011000001 1100101010010110 111010111111011 1010111100111111 111100101111101 10101010110101 110111111011101 111100101110111 1011101101101101 11110110111101 1111111111011110 11010101111111 1110010101011001 10100101111111111 110111111001 111100100101101 110011111111101 111101110100101 111111101110111 101100101011101 111111101110101 11101001011110101 110100101110101 0101010111101 1110100101011101 111110010110101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
an', on, i, me, you, they, must
Anaphora
an', they