This is an analysis of The Sea And The Hills by Rudyard Kipling.
Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt water unbounded --
The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcC ccXddcC cXeeecC ddfffXC
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 1101001010110010 011011011010010110 011001011110010110 111010011010110110 01011001011011110 01111011 1111011111011001011 11010010011010010 010010011011011010 010010010110100100 010011011010110010 01011001011011110 01111011 1111011111011001011 1101001010011010 001010011010111100 0010111011010111010 110111001011010010 01101011011010110 01111111 1111011111011001011 1101001010010010 1100011010111011110 11011101111010111 111010011010101111 010011011011110011 01101010 1111011111011001011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, sea, his, no, as, it, that
Anaphora
the, his, inland
Epiphora
it, him
