This is an analysis of The Benefactors by Rudyard Kipling.
Ah! What avails the classic bent
And what the cultured word,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dede fgfg gdgd ahah gigi jdjd bebe gkgk bibi lmlm nfnf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11100101 110101 0101000100 1100001 110110011 111111 11000100 0111001 00110111 110111 11010111 110101 10011001 110101 01010101 110101 11110001 111111 11010111 110111 11110101 110101 11110101 110101 111100111 111111 11011111 110101 11110101 110101 11110101 1000111 10110101 011111 11010101 110101 11110101 011101 11011111 110001 110101001 0011101 01110111 110101 1101101001 111111 11010011 110101 11110100 111001 10111101 110111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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Anadiplosis
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