This is an analysis of The Parting of the Column by Rudyard Kipling.
We've rode and fought and ate and drunk as rations come to hand,
Together for a year and more around this stinkin' land:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccbb ddbb dXbB bbbB eeXb ddbb ccXb ffbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111111110101 01010111010101 11110101111101 11011111010101 11110101111101 11110111110111 11011101110101 11010001010101 10011101110111 01110111011111 01111111111111 01110111010101 11110101110111 11010100010100 11011100010101 01111101010101 1110011110111 11111111111111 11010111111001 01111101010101 110101010010101 11001100110101 01111111111101 11010101010101 11111111111101 11110101010011 11110111111111 11111111010101 11010101011001 11011101110111 110111101110100 11010101010101 01111110111111 11011101110101 01110100111101 01110101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, you, to, old, same, an', your, we've, by, good
Anaphora
the, we've
Anadiplosis
you
