This is an analysis of The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling.
So we settled it all when the storm was done
As comfy as comfy could be;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcaXa dddXed ababbXf bGaX bgbG aaaX ehch bXXX bbgX hhhh adad ifiF hFhX jkjkjXjX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
- Metre: 11100110111 11011010 1110100111 0111101 1101100101 01111101 111010111 1110101 111010110101 111010010111 101010111 1111110 1010100 10111 01111011001 101001011 11101101101 111001101 101101101 111001001001 111001111 1010101011 1010110 11010101 1101010 10111111111 10100101 111101011 1010110 11110101 110101 101110101 1111010 1110100101 010001 11011111 0010101 1011100101 110100 001001111001 01010010 1011100101 111011 00100111111 0101010 01010101 010101 11010111 010111 11011101 110101 11110101 111101 101111001 01001101001 11111111 011110111 101111001 011110111 101101011011 1101110101100 11011110111 1101101111 11010010011 11001101001 11011010111 10110111010 11011010111 110110110010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 69
Repeated words/phrases
and, ra, two, ridin', he, his, man, our, yet, at, last
Anaphora
and, the, yet
Epiphora
two
