This is an analysis of The Last Department by Rudyard Kipling.
Twelve hundred million men are spread
About this Earth, and I and You…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bbcb ccdX Xeae ddcd ddfd fcXf dXXd bbXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010111 01011111 10111111 1001101010 111111110101 01001011101 0101011111 1111110101 1101010111 0011111100 11010111001 01110110010000 1111011101 1100010100 0111010101 1101010100 0100010100 1001110101 1101010101 1101001001 1111010001 1101011101 1111110101 0011000101 100100110011 1110111111 1111010101 1101011101 0101010101 0101010101 0100011000 1001011101 1111111101 0111011101 1101110000 1101111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, nor, of, or
Anaphora
when, a