This is an analysis of Tarrant Moss by Rudyard Kipling.

I closed and drew for my love's sake
That now is false to me,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dXeX fbfb gdgd hihi cbeb Xcac
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11111111 110101 1110100101 111001 11111111 1110110 10100110 110101 11011111 111101 11011001 010101 11100011 111111 10111111 1111101 10111101 1111101 1110111101 10100101 1110101001 1111111 1010100110 110011 110111111 1101111 1110111111 11101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

and, they, for

Anaphora

and, they, their