This is an analysis of The Prayer Of Miriam Cohen by Rudyard Kipling.

From the wheel and the drift of Things
Deliver us, Good Lord,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab aaaa cdcd eXeX bfXf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 00110101 010101 11010101 010101 11110111 111011 11110101 1001101 11010101 010111 11111101 010101 11110001 010101 110100101 0111100 01111101 011111 11111111 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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