This is an analysis of The King's Task by Rudyard Kipling.
After the sack of the City when Rome was sunk to a name,
In the years that the lights were darkened, or ever St. Wilfrid…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaccbdbbbeXdfgfaahhijiaahXhhhbbXeXbeebXbbbegeakacdceegggglXlhhbmbjkekjXgbbbhhgbgcbbeehhhngnmoofcX
- Stanza lengths: 98,
- Metre: 100100101111001 000101010110110 1 11010010010101 01011010110101 10100100100101 10011010100110 1 10111101001011 111101101010101 11100100101011 10101100110101 1001101010110110 1 011010101011010 1 100100101100101 101101100100101 0101001010101001 101100110100111 1011011001111111 011111010010111 1 1101010110011 1110101101101 111110010101111 1011101101110110 1 11010010111111 11010101010111 11010101010101 11010010110101 11110101100100 1010010110111 11101101101100 110100100100101 11010111011111 11101101111001 11111001101001 11010101010100 111101100100111 11110100101101 1111101011111 01 1011101101001011 11 100100101001011 11111011010110 11 111010010010101 11110010111100 1 1001001011001001 100011010011101 101010100101101 111001010110101 10101010101011 1011110101111 11100101011101 1011011010111111 01 10110010100101 101010110101 1000100111010111 101101111110111 011 10111110101111 10 011110101011101 10 1010100101101001 1001111010101111 11 101010101101111 10111110111111 1 1011010101111101 101001001010101001 100100110100101 100111100101011 1 101111011011010 01 100010010101001 10011100100100101 10001010101111 10111001010101 11 1011110100101001 10110101000110101 1011001011111 11 11110011101101 1 1011100101101101 1011001101111100 1 1000111111011110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 98
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, of, their, he, thrice, they, we, as, that, our
Anaphora
rudely, he, thrice, we, they, and
