This is an analysis of The City Of Sleep by Rudyard Kipling.

Over the edge of the purple down,
Where the single lamplight gleams,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbabcdeeCD afafXdeECD AaaaXdeEcD
  • Stanza lengths: 10,10,10,
  • Metre: 100100101 1010101 1101001001 10110101 101111101 10110101 111011101 11001101 111100101 1001001 101100111 101111 1111001001 1011101 001100101 101101 111011101 11001101 111100101 1001001 100100101 1010101 1111101001 1111100 11100101 101111 11011101 11001101 111100101 1001001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

pity, us, and, we

Anaphora

we

Epiphora

us