This is an analysis of Shillin' A Day by Rudyard Kipling.

My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly
From Birr to Bareilly, from Leeds to Lahore,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXabXabbbb bcddcXdXcddddeeXXe
  • Stanza lengths: 13,18,
  • Metre: 110010110100 01010001001 111100 101100 1101111001000 111010011010 01011011111 1011010 010010 11101001001 101001 1001 1001001001 1011110010011 11101011111 1111110 110010 11011011111 1011100111110 111000011010 101110 001101 1011001111010 11011010 11110 111010110010 1110 1111 100101 1101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

think

Epiphora

day, letter