Michael’s Reviews > A Choice of Kipling's Verse > Status Update

‘A Tree Song’ sings of the Midsummer when the Oak-God is mid rising.

‘The Recall’ recalls ‘Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau’.

‘The Dykes’ is written in (I think) anapestic heptameter. It is scattered with iambs, trochees, and occasionally an amphibrach. The iambs are most common, though, and they act as a break on the leaping anapests. The midlines are occasionally broken, too. There's almost a skipping heartbeat in the poem.