This is an analysis of The Sons Of Martha by Rudyard Kipling.
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbXX XXcc ddXX ccXX Xdee aaeeXeedd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 0101010101110100101 101010101100010110101 10111010110111100101 01110110110110111 0011010100100111001 0011101010001110101 00111011100011001110 1001101010010101111 110100110110010101 1011101101110101101 1101110010100100111 10101011010100101101 11011110111111001010 110101111111001110 101111111100001001 1111101001111111100 0101001100011100101 110101010100101101 0101001011001001001 1100110011100110101 1111111010010010111 11111010010011111111 1001101011001101011 1011011111101101001 1101110101011111 100101000111010111 1101001010110100101 110101010001101101 1010101111110101111 1100001101101010101 111011101111100101 11111001011011101101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
sons, of, and, her, it, their, care, that, they, to, him, in
Anaphora
it, they