This is an analysis of The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling.
One man in a thousand, Solomon says,
Will stick more close than a brother.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd dXdXebeb fXfagaga hihicbcb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1100101001 01111010 1011101111 011101010 110110101 1101101 101010111 00111011 110101111 01001011 1101101001 1111111110 101111111 01001110 101010111 0101010 111010111 111011010 111101101 11110110 1101101001 110110110 1010110101 011111110 011110111 01011010 111100111 01111010 110110111 01110110 1010101111 00101110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
your, you
