This is an analysis of The King's Ankus by Rudyard Kipling.

These are the Four that are never content, that have never be
filled since the Dews began--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 110111101011100 110101 100110100110100 110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

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