This is an analysis of Yet At The Last by Rudyard Kipling.

Yet at the last, ere our spearmen had found him,
Yet at the last, ere a sword-thrust could save,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababaXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11011110111 1101101111 11010010011 11001101001 11011010111 10110111010 11011010111 110110110010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

yet, last, at

Anaphora

yet