This is an analysis of The Hour Of The Angel by Rudyard Kipling.

Sooner or late--in earnest or in jest--
(But the stakes are no jest) Ithuriel's Hour…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcc aaXXaXc
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,
  • Metre: 1011010101 10111110010 00111101101 011100100110 1001001011 0101011111 0111110111 11110010111 1101110101 0101000111 1111011111 10010100101 1111111000 1111111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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