This is an analysis of Road Song Of The Bandar-Log by Rudyard Kipling.

Here we go in a flung festoon,
Half-way up to the jealous moon!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdD ccccdddD ddeeaadDd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,9,
  • Metre: 11100111 11100101 111011001 11111101 111101101 100100101 11101101 10111101 11100101 100100111 100111101 101000111 10101110 11101011 11100101 10111101 10111011 10111111 11111110 1001011010 100100101 11110111 110111101 10111101 000100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

you, we, or

Anaphora

don't