This is an analysis of The Totem by Rudyard Kipling.

Ere the mother's milk had dried
On my lips the Brethren came--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab XXcX cdcd eded XbXb cfcf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1010111 1110101 1101101 1011101 100010 11100010001000 1110111 1110001 1110111 1110111 10100111 1010100 1010101 1110111 0010111 1001111 101100 1010001 1110111 1110001 1011101 1110111 1010111 1111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

my

Anaphora

then