This is an analysis of The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling.
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees;
Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging, smoking seas.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXX aabb ccaa bbdd eeee XXff
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101010111 11110111010101 01111101010111 01010101010101 1010101010100101 101010101010111 11010111110101 101110111110111 11010111011101 01110111010101 01110101110101 01000111010101 11010111110101 11010111010111 01111101110001 01110111010001 11100100010001 11100100110001 110011001111101 01010101110101 11111100011111 11100100010011 111101001110101 01010111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, our, of, from, you
Anaphora
our, through, we, go