This is an analysis of The Playmate by Rudyard Kipling.

She is not Folly -- that I know.
Her steadfast eyelids tell me so…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdX ddee XXff XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10110111 01111111 110100101 11110011 1101011 01010101 11001101 1101001010 11011101 01110101 11110101 10110111 100100101 11000100 01010101 00110101 10110110 10110101 11110101 01100110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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