This is an analysis of The First Chantey by Rudyard Kipling.
Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her;
Haling her dumb from the camp, took her and bound her.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc aaaa aadd bbdd aadd ddee ffdd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 110100110110 100100110110 110111111110 100100110110 110101111011 101101110111 111100110110 101100110110 111101111010 101100110010 101110111010 110100111110 110111111010 101110110110 111100110110 101111111110 110111110111 100100110011 101111111110 101110110110 101100110010 101000110110 110101110010 110100111010 0110111010010 101100111010 100101110110 101101111010 110101110110 110101110110 100100110110 101101110010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
her, i, and, we, he, our, to, that
Anaphora
back
Epiphora
her, us