This is an analysis of The Miracle Of Purun Bhagat by Rudyard Kipling.

The night we felt the earth would move
We stole and plucked him by the hand,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01110111 11111101 01111001 11110101 11010111 11111101 11110101 11111101 11111101 01111111 11110011 10111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

we

Anaphora

and