This is an analysis of The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling.
Love and Death once ceased their strife
At the Tavern of Man's Life.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcXccee fffgg
- Stanza lengths: 14,5,
- Metre: 1111111 1010011 1111101 1010101 10111011 10101001 1001101 1011101 1010101 10101110 1110011 0011101 1110101 1010101 1011111 1010101 1111101 1010111 1111111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 19