This is an analysis of The Spies' March by Rudyard Kipling.
There are not leaders to lead us to honour, and yet without leaders we sally,
Each man reporting for duty alone, out of sight, out of reach, of his fellow.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababc dcdcefefgf dXdhififXXf cdcdhfhfggff hjXjkfkff ejejcfcff dXdhefeff igiggfgX
- Stanza lengths: 5,10,11,12,9,9,9,8,
- Metre: 11110011010110110110 11010110011011010010 11110010010110110110 001001001001010010010 10110110 110101 1101011 110111111 1001001 110101 110101 10010101 1011101 11010110110111 1011101 100101 1101010 10011111 1010101 1011001 010111 111101 1001101 1111010 10101100 1001101 010101 0101001 110010 010101 010101 010101 100101 1101101 110111 1110101 1001101 1100111 1010101 010111 100100100 10101001 1100101 1011101 1010101001 1001001 1100111 1011101 1011001 110111 111111 11111011 1100101 110111 101101 1101101 10111101 0111100 100101 011011001 1100101 010101 1001111 1001101 1111101 1001101 0100111 11010101 1110101 10101011 1010101 1111111011 11010010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 73
Repeated words/phrases
of, to, fall, in, not, where, or, we, he
Anaphora
not, the, now, or
Epiphora
spy
