This is an analysis of The Love Song Of Har Dyal by Rudyard Kipling.

Alone upon the housetops to the North
I turn and watch the lightnings in the sky--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cbcX dbdX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01010100001 1111010001 0100111001 10101010111 0111010101 1101010101 0101010011 10101010111 1101011100 1101110111 1101011101 10101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

i, my, and