This is an analysis of To The Companions by Rudyard Kipling.
How comes it that, at even-tide,
When level beams should show most truth,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efXX aeae fgXg hXhX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11011101 11011111 11010101 010000101 101101110 01010111 110111010 110010101 11011101 11010101 010100100 11001000 01010101 110101001 01010101 11100101 11110111 11011101 01011101 11010101 11010111 11011101 11011101 11111000010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
he
Anaphora
and
