This is an analysis of The White Seal by Rudyard Kipling.
Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us,
And black are the waters that sparkled so green.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdc XcccXdeed
- Stanza lengths: 8,9,
- Metre: 111110010011 11101011011 0110010110011 11001011001 110110110110 11011001111 011111111011 01001001101 110111111 111001111 11011101 111101 11110111 111110 11111 11101 100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
bad
Anaphora
are
