This is an analysis of The Kingdom by Rudyard Kipling.

Now we are come to our Kingdom,
And the State is thus and thus;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbcbA AdXdA AcecA AfefggA
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,7,
  • Metre: 11110110 1010111 110110101 100101 11110110 11110110 1010101 0010110101 1100101 11110110 11110110 1010111 011111101 110011 11110110 11110110 111111 1111111111 0101011 1100101 11100111 11110110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

to, our, all

Anaphora

now

Epiphora

kingdom