This is an analysis of The Mine-Sweepers by Rudyard Kipling.

Dawn off the Foreland -- the young flood making
Jumbled and short and steep --…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdX aeaecdX afafcdX
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
  • Metre: 11010001110 101111 10010111010 101001 1000100011 1110101 11100101010010110100 11010001110 1011001 1101101110 1010101 100110011 1110101 10100101010010110100 11010001110 1010101 11110011010 100111 100100011 11101 11100101010010110100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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