This is an analysis of Sea-Wife by Rudyard Kipling.
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate,
And a wealthy wife is she;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe eXag Xbcb Chch cici ccic fdfd gchc dhXh ajkjXkgCg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 110110101 1010101 11011101 110101 11110110 110111 111100101 110111 11111111 111111 110100110 1100101 110100110 010101 11011101 110101 00111101 0100011 1010111101 0011101 10101111001 111101 1011111111 0010101 11110101 1100111 11111101111 1111101 1101100101 11011010 110100101 1101010 010101001 110111 11111101 011110 101111010 100101 00100111 110101 11011101 110101 1110100101 110111 11110101 010101 00111101 1010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
and, or, men, they, to, home
Anaphora
and, the
Anadiplosis
she
