This is an analysis of The Return Of The Children by Rudyard Kipling.

Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs' dove-winged races--
Holding hands forlornly the Children wandered beneath the Dome,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaX cXcX dbdX eXeX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10011010110101110 101100010100101 100101001011010010 101101100110101111100 100100111010010010 101011110010110010011 101101001110111110 101101001011011010 1001111111110011111 1111101011101011111 11100101101010011 1111001001001111011110 1101010110100101 1010011110101011 10100110011111001 101111001001011001110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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