This is an analysis of The Song Of The Dead by Rudyard Kipling.
Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges --
They that look still to the Pole, asleep by their hide-stripped sledges.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaba aXXbcXcd e ffddaaddeebbbbff fEXfE fBXfB ghbgh X aXadbiJi gdgdXXJJf adddXhJJJh
- Stanza lengths: 5,8,1,16,5,5,5,1,8,9,10,
- Metre: 1101001001101110 111100101111110 10010010011110010 101001011101 0011010 1001001001101010 10111001 0010010110 1001001 0010011010 101001011 0011011110 1101001 1 10101010001101 1101011101111 101010101010001 1011011111101 10111011001111 0010101011111 10111011101101 0010101011111 10111011001111 11111010101101 10101010111001 1011101011011 10101110101111 10101011101001 10101010101001 10101011111011 1111001 1101111 1110011100 111111 1101111 1101101 111111 11110101 110111 111111 110101 111101 11010101 010101 111101 1 1111110100 1111110 1110010101 111101 11101100101 00110101 0100101000 1111101 110011101 110111 110111101 1111101 111110110 0010001 0100101000 0100101000 1111100 1111110100 1101111 10111100101 1011111 1011110101 1010111 0100101000 0100101000 0100101000 1111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 75
Repeated words/phrases
in, by, of, came, we, on, then, follow, after, that, for, and
Anaphora
we, but, if, or
Epiphora
admiralty
