This is an analysis of Tommy by Rudyard Kipling.
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXaaa aaXbXccc ddeeXfff gghhXccc ffhhXebb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 11000101010111 0100111111111100 01100111110101 11000101101111 10100110111001100 10101101001010101 01010111010101 10101101001010101 11000100110110 1101010111111 11100100110101 11010101111001 101001101110011000 10100111001010101 01010111010101 10100111001010101 11011101111111 01010101110101 11010101110101 01110101100011 10100110111001110 10101101001010101 01010111010101 10101101001010101 1101111011101101 11010101010011 10011100011101 11010101100101 10100110111001100 10100101101110001 11000111110001 10100101101110001 111101111111011 11110100111100 11010111110011 01010101010101 101001101110110100 10100011001010101 101001101110111 11010101111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
i, to, an', play, begins, band, it's, tommy, me, tide, on, for, roll, begin, drums, in, wind, there's, trouble, that
Anaphora
the, they, an'
Epiphora
play, tide, roll, wind