This is an analysis of Old Fighting-Men by Rudyard Kipling.
All the world over, nursing their scars,
Sit the old fighting-men broke in the wars--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd Xcaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 101101011 1011011001 1011011011 1001001001 100101000011 1101011110 1011001011 1001101011 1001011011 1011011101 111101001 1011011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Anaphora
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