This is an analysis of The Burden by Rudyard Kipling.
One grief on me is laid
Each day of every year,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aBabccCc dEdeXcCc beBEccCc eeXXeeXX
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 111101 1101001 011111 101111 1001101 010101 110101 101101 011101 11001001 011101 011111 0101110 011111 110101 110101 011111 0111001 1101001 11001001 011101 011101 110101 110101 0101011101 10111011 101110100 1101100 010101101 0101001111 10101110 1101100
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
to, every, i, one
Anaphora
to, each, i
Epiphora
i
Anadiplosis
i
