This is an analysis of The Heritage by Rudyard Kipling.

Our Fathers in a wondrous age,
Ere yet the Earth was small,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXcX cdedfgfg cdchdidi dedeeiei jkjkedhd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11000101 110111 01010100 110111 11010011 110111 01011111 110100 01001111 010111 01100101 0101010 10110111 110111 11011111 110111 11010101 010101 11110111 110101 11011101 110101 11111101 110101 010100101 110101 0101111 111101 100100101 1001011 01111101 001001 11010111 110101 11111111 111111 11110101 110101 11111101 010111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 40

Repeated words/phrases

their

Anaphora

the, wherefore