This is an analysis of The Only Son by Rudyard Kipling.

She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew
For she heard a whimper under the sill and a great grey paw came through.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbb eeXXffeeaa ddXX Xe
  • Stanza lengths: 10,10,4,2,
  • Metre: 110111011101001 11101010011011111 01110001111011 1010111011111101 01110010100100101 101011101110101 1011101001100101 111100101101101 111101001110101 11110101110101 11111101101101 11110111111001 10110101110001 111100101110001 1111001111011101 11111101111011 11101111010010001 11110111111001 101101001011010101 11110101110101 1011010010110110101 11110111110101 10011111111111 011111111111010 110111011100110 101111100111010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

she, and, of, i

Anaphora

for