This is an analysis of The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling.
Take up the White man's burden --
Send forth the best ye breed --…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abcbdbeb Abfbcaga AdadggXX AefefbXb AbfbXgXX AdhdfieiXAecebehe
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 1101110 110111 1111011 0111001 0101010 110111 1111010 110111 1101110 010001 0101010 110101 1101110 110111 0101010 110101 1101110 010101 1101010 110101 1111010 011101 1111010 111101 1101110 110101 1101110 010101 0111110 011111 1100110 110011 1101110 110101 0101110 010111 0101110 1100101 10111010 10101010 1101110 111101 1111110 011100 1111110 111111 0101010 111111 1101110 110101 0101010 0101001 1101111 110100 1101110 010011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
to, and, the, by
