This is an analysis of The Children's Song by Rudyard Kipling.

Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee
Our love and toil in the years to be;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff Xagb ggXX hhbb ggii XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10111101 111100000 11111111 11110011 100101101 11110111 11110101 11000100 11010101 01101101 10111111 01010101 11010110 01110111 11110101 11110101 11010111 11111111 110111100 11110001 11011101 11110101 11011101 11010101 11010101 111111001 01010101 11011101 1001111110 1111111010 11011101 1011110001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

our, and, i

Anaphora

i

Epiphora

i

Anadiplosis

i