This is an analysis of The Conundrum Of The Workshops by Rudyard Kipling.
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabX ccdd ebbbX bXff eebX ggbX aaXbXXcccc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,5,4,4,4,10,
- Metre: 1010011111110111 110101100111001001 10111101111100101 1010100101101010010 10011001110100101 0100111011011111 1110100100111101001 1010101001000100101 11111001101 11111001 101011010011011111 1111111011011101 1010100101101010010 11001001001110101 1010100101101010010 0111101011010101 11110010111011001 01011101011110111 11111011110100111 11111011100100101 010110101100011010 111010010100100101 111010110100101101 11101110110101101 1010111101101010010 10100101111011111 0101010111011001 11011001011 10110101 1010100101101010010 10111001011011101 10101011011110101 1011110101110101 101001111111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
and, his, to, of, they, each, as, man, we, their
Anaphora
they, we, and
