This is an analysis of Prelude by Rudyard Kipling.
I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb Xcbc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 11101111 11111011 011111101 1011101 11111011 0101111 111111011 110101 111001011 1010101 01011111 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, have, or
Anaphora
i
