This is an analysis of Screw-Guns by Rudyard Kipling.
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,
I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AabXXCdCEDdd ffbXXD ggbdXD cXcddXD XffdbbXD AadfXXCdCEDdd
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,6,7,8,13,
- Metre: 10111010100101 110111100111111 01001010111001001 010010010 1100110111 11110110111111 111110011 1110110111 110111010 01011111 111111111101 111101001 11101101111011111 11101001111001101 11001011011010001 1110011110 1111101111 1111011 001101111111011001 001011111111010011 110110110101011011 111110011 1111100111 1111011 01001001101001001 111011011 11101101 101011101111001001 010111011 0100110111 1111011 1011011010 101101101 101001001111101011 0011011111 101101011 111011011 0101101111 1111011 10111010100101 110111100111111 010111111 01111111 110111110 1110101111 11110110111111 111110011 1110110111 110111010 01011111 111001101011 111101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
my, you, guns, 'im, we, an', o', old
Anaphora
if, we're, the, an'
