Analysis of How the Leopard Got His Spots
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
I am the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in Most wise tones,
"Let us melt into the landscape -- just us two by our lones."
People have come -- in a carriage -- calling. But Mummy is
there. . . .
Yes, I can go if you take me--Nurse says she don't care.
Let's go up to the pig-styes and sit on the farmyard rails!
Let's say things to the bunnies, and watch 'em skitter their tails!
Let's'-oh, anything, daddy, so long as it's you and me,
And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea!
Here's your boots (I've brought 'em), and here's your cap and stick,
And here's your pipe and tobacco. Oh, come along out of it -- quick!
Scheme | AABCCDDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111100111 11101011111101 10110010101101 1 1111111111111 1111011011011 1111010011111 1110101111101 010100100110011 111111011101 011100111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 448 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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