This is an analysis of The Rupaiyat Of Omar Kal'Vin by Rudyard Kipling.

Allowing for the difference 'twixt prose and rhymed exaggeration, this ought to reproduce the sense of what Sir A-- told the nation sometime ago, when the Government struck from our incomes two per cent.

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Structure

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  • Stanzas: 11
  • Lines: 42

Repeated words/phrases

i, all, and, or, one, you, of, her

Anaphora

and, the, behold