This is an analysis of The Last Suttee by Rudyard Kipling.
Not many years ago a King died in one of the Rajpoot States.
His wives, disregarding the orders of the English against Suttee,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdef gchhhc ebcXcb idjjjd ebfffb gkbbbX aceeec lclllc jlmmml ccbbbc abjjjb gmdXXX lfeeef iknnnk fjlllj bmbbbX ccbbbc glbbXX XennnXXejcccj
- Stanza lengths: 7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 1100010110100101 0110100100010011 111010010110101 110001101100101 110101110101 0101011010010001 010010110111 1011101 0011101 11110111 1010010101 111100101 0111111 11010111 0100101 110101001 110101110 10101101 11000101 0010110101 111111 111100101 1011001001 1010100101 1011111 111101101 010101 0010100101 1101111001 01011001 11110111 01110101 1111010 01010111 1111111101 0010111101 11000101 11011101 110101 110100011 110100101 01110111 1101001 0111001001 1101001 1111111 100010111 1010100111 1110101 111011101 010111 10101111 110110111 0111011101 1011101 111011101 1011101 1110011101 110110111 110110101 1110101 110100101 10100111 1011110111 1101011001 10111001001 10100101 01010101 110101 10010101 100100100 100100100 1001011 11011101 0100111 110010101 010110111 1110110111 111101 11110101 1101010 111100101 11110111 111010111 1101010 11011001 010101 1111010111 010111111 111010111 1100101 11110101 010111 11011101 0010000101 0011100101 1111111 1110101101 111011 1110110101 111111101 010100101 1010101 11110101 110001 101110101 0100100101 0111001100 1010101 11110111 010101 1111010101 1010110101 10011101 1011011 01110101 010111 11101111 1101100101 110111111 10100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 20
- Lines: 122
Repeated words/phrases
of, her, and
Anaphora
from, and, where, the
Epiphora
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