This is an analysis of The King And The Sea by Rudyard Kipling.
After His Realms and States were moved
To bare their hearts to the King they loved,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabccb bbdeed ccdeed dddffd gghaah iXhaahaadaad aadX iibccX
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,12,4,6,
- Metre: 10011101 011100111 100010101010 01110101 011100101 111111011010 11110111 101010111 00101101010101 011101101 11010101 11101111011 11110111 10110111 00110101111 1101010101 1110101101 10110101011 11110111 0110110101 0100111010011 010101111 1010101101 010010101111 1101001001 11011111 10110111110 11111001111 1011111101 10111101010 1101101001 11011100 00111111101010 111111001 10100110101 10010011010 111100101 1101100101 01011110111 110101101 101010011 11110100011 100111001 1010111 111100111011 1110111101111 100100101 11110101 10110101010 011100101 1111000101 11111111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 52
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, or, him, his, had
Anaphora
to, and
