This is an analysis of When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted by Rudyard Kipling.

When Earth's last picture is painted
And the tubes are twisted and dried…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcXcdefeghihfgdgiebe
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 11110010 10111011 101010110 10101011 111111110 1111111 101001010 1110101 111001010 1100101 11101110 0100101 1111010 1011011 111111010 11001011 110010111 11001011 111011010 1101101 111010010 11001011 01011110 10101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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