This is an analysis of The Gods Of The Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling.
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd aaee ffgg aahX iiXX bbXX hhjj ccjXggcc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
- Metre: 1111100100100111 1111010000100101 101100101101011 10100100101100101 1010011111111101 11011001111011001 111010010101101 1110010100111001011 111010101101011 1010111110100101 11111101111100111 1011011010010111101 00111101110100101 10110111010111101 10111001010110111 1110010010110011001 1010010010110001001 11011011010100111 11101111101011011 101001001011001011 101100100101000101 11011011011011001 11101111010111011 101001001011100101 001010010101001011 110010100110101 111110010111011011 10100100101111111 001001010111101001 1010010010101010011 11011110111111 101001001011001011 100000100110101 111011101101101 101010010101010010 1011101011010010 1110000101011101 11111101011111101 11011001111011001 01001001001011001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, we, in, us, they, that, denied, of, to, as
Anaphora
they, and
