This is an analysis of The Songs Of The Lathes by Rudyard Kipling.
The fans and the beltings they roar round me.
The power is shaking the floor round me…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXB CdCCC aadB dddb aadb eecb ddXb dcdb aaXbXCdCCC
- Stanza lengths: 4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Metre: 0110101111 0100100111 1011111010111110 00011001 1010101 11011101 11101010 11101010 111010101 011010011101 011010011101 0110101010100010 00011001 010011011101 1111011101 10101010100010 10011001 0110101111 10101110111 1011101000101010 111101 111101011111 1011001011111 1011101010100010 11101 0110101101 001010111101 1110111011101010 1101111 111010101 111011111 01101010101010 111111 11101011101 11111101101 1011111010100010 1110101 1010101 11011101 11101010 11101010 111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
me, flanders, guns, in, they
Anaphora
the, shells
Epiphora
me, flanders, us
