This is an analysis of The Bell Buoy by Rudyard Kipling.
They christened my brother of old--
And a saintly name he bears--…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababacAC dXdeeceC fbfbbcXc cgcXgcgC aXahhcXC hihiicjc dbdbbcjC ihihhXcC kakaXaacAC
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,10,
- Metre: 11011001 1010111 1110101 10100101 10100101 1010101 11101100111 1011011 00100111 1011101 1111001 001001010 10101010 1011101 111111001010 1011011 1010101 10101110 01111101 11010010 1101010 1100101 11101100101 1011011 11100101 11100101 11111001 1111001 1111111 111101 11110110100 1011011 010111 0111100 010111 011101 11101001 1100111 1110110101 1011011 1010101 1100101 1100101 11100101 1011111 1011101 01111101101 1011011 011111 010111 1101111 0111001 110101 010101 11101110101 1011011 10100101 10100101 0101011 11110101 100111 10001110 11100111101 1011011 11111111 00100101 1010111 1010111 011100 0101101 101111 101011 11101100111 1011011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 74
Repeated words/phrases
i, he, they, of
Anaphora
when, he, there, the, i, and
Anadiplosis
i
