This is an analysis of The Mother's Son by Rudyard Kipling.
I have a dream -- a dreadful dream --
A dream that is never done.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb adXd aebe Xcbc cdbd cfbf XgXg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101 0110101 110111001 1101101 111000101 110101 111111101 11100101 10110111 111101 1011111101 110111 1011101 101111 110111101 101011 11010101 111111 111101101 110111 11011111 100111 110101101 101111 11111111 111100 1100100101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
dream, and, they
Anaphora
and
