This is an analysis of Snarleyow by Rudyard Kipling.
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps
Which is first among the women an' amazin' first in war;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXCCDD aabX bbcX eecX ffcX gXhh hXeeXggccCCDD
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,13,
- Metre: 010000100010001 101010101100101 11010101110101 11111100011100 1001001111 1001001011 11001001101 101101001011 111000101110101 01010100010101 111011111110101 101010101010100 11111111111101 111010101011111 11110101010101 11111100110111 010101101011101 111111001010101 11110100110111 111011111110111 1110101010101 01010101010101 11011101010101 11010100110111 11010101111101 11111101111111 11111101111011 111110101011111 01011101010101 111110101010101 10111101111111 101010101011001 01000100010001 1111100110001 1111101010111 011011101111101 1001001111 1001001011 11001001101 101101001011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
down, in, they, to, an', 'is, you
Anaphora
down, you
