This is an analysis of The Master-Cook by Rudyard Kipling.

With us there rade a Maister-Cook that came
From the Rochelle which is neere Angouleme.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXXcXXXcX dXXeXXbXXaacceeXXXdXX
  • Stanza lengths: 13,21,
  • Metre: 0111010111 0011101100 1011110101 1011110101 0111011001 1010110100 01001110101 1110110101 0101011100 111101100111 01010111 1111110111 1101001010 10011110101 11110111011 110010111 1011101101 11110010 11011111100 1101010101 110111011 1011011001 1101110101 1101010101 111011101 11100011 1111000101 1111010111 111010100 1001011010 1001011000 1010111010 1100110100 10010100111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

of, and, hee, to, his, as