This is an analysis of Song Of The Fifth River by Rudyard Kipling.

Where first by Eden Tree
The Four Great Rivers ran,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc acabeceX bfghXfcc bbiidjjd kckcXgkf XkdfXbfb bckkcahXba
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,8,8,8,8,8,10,
  • Metre: 111101 011101 01101001 0111000 1100101 010101 11110 1111001 11101001 10110101 0110101 10111011 100111 0100101 1010101 1010111100 101111 1100101 11101001 1100101 1101001 0111011 1010101 0101001 11011 010101 0111101 1010111 11000111 11001001 1101111 11010 101001 0111001 110101 1010001 111001010 1111101 011101 0101001 1110010100 111111 011101 0101001 110101 1110101 1111011 110001 0100101 010101 101001 0100101 010101 011101 1011101 010001 11001 1011000
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 58

Repeated words/phrases

and, he

Anaphora

and, he, a