This is an analysis of The Totem by Rudyard Kipling.
Ere the mother's milk had dried
On my lips the Brethren came--…
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