This is an analysis of Soldier An' Sailor Too by Rudyard Kipling.
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the ~Crocodile~,
I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars' style.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXXccc ddeccccc XdddXcXccc ddccbccc eeacDCcXcc dfafdcccccDC
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,10,8,10,12,
- Metre: 1111000010110101 1101101111100101 11100101011 11101111 111010110010101101 1110111111110101 10011010111001001 10100101000101101 110111110010101101 11010001010100101 11011001001 111001101 1111010110010101101 1100011011010101111 111111101110101101 10100101000101101 11001011001 1100001 1111011101 11100101 111111010010100100 111010110010101101 1111001111100 11101101 1111111111011101 11111010000101101 111111011011100101 1100111000110101 1100111100110100101 011010110010101101 11011111001 11101111 1101100110111101111 11101100100101101 01110010010100101 010111110011111001 101101001001 00111001 1110010110010 101101 11111011011101111 11011011001 1101101 111111001001101101 11011011011 101111110 11001111001 111011001 101111011111 10111101 111101010010101101 110011101111 1110111 110010110011001001 1110010110010 101101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
i, 'e, an', 'em, in, for, they, to, you
Anaphora
an', they, their
Epiphora
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