This is an analysis of The Anvil by Rudyard Kipling.

England's on the anvil--hear the hammers ring--
Clanging from the Severn to the Tyne!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dedXe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,
  • Metre: 10101010101 100010001 10101111101 1010101010001 10101010101 10100010101 1010101010111 1010101010001 11011001111 101110101 011111111111 101010101000 1
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

hammered, one, and