This is an analysis of Quiquern by Rudyard Kipling.

The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow--
They beg for coffee and sugar; they go where the white men go.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aababXaacbc
  • Stanza lengths: 11,
  • Metre: 010001011110101 111101101110111 01000101110111 11110010111110 01 01000101110010 1 110110101111111 101000101010111 11110010111101 001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

they, to

Anaphora

the