This is an analysis of The Last Of The Light Brigade by Rudyard Kipling.
There were thirty million English who talked of England's might,
There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeXX ccbb ffbb bbgg aaXX XXhh aaXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10101010110101 101010101101101 1110111011101011 101010100100101 11111101111111 111010010110101 111010100101001 10101010110111 11110101011111 10010101111011 11111010101100111 0111000010111000 110111100100111 0110101011101001 110010101010111 010010100100101 110100100100111 11111010011111 010010100101011 110000100100101 011101101100110011 101101011111001 1011111111000101 11101100101111111 1011111111101111 0101010011110101 111111101101101 1110101111111010 0110100101011101 10100101011011010 1111010010110111 1010100100100111 11010101100101 01111010111101 11010110010001111 11100110100100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
they, that, and, to, all, you, we, of
Anaphora
there, they, and