This is an analysis of The Vineyard by Rudyard Kipling.

At the eleventh hour he came,
But his wages were the same…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbee bbdd ffaaXbdbd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 100101011 1010001 11111111 01100101 1110101 0111101 0100111 11101101 1000101 001011 1110101 1010101 1011111 1010101 1110101 1111111 1110101 1011101 11100101 0110111 1111110 1011101 1111101 1011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24