Analysis of Letting in the Jungle

Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)



Veil them, cover them, wall them round--
Blossom, and creeper, and weed--
Let us forget the sight and the sound,
The smell and the touch of the breed!
Fat black ash by the altar-stone,
Here is the white-foot rain
And the does bring forth in the fields unsown,
And none shall affright them again;
And the blind walls crumble, unknown, o'erthrown,
And none shall inhabit again!


Scheme ABABCDCECE
Poetic Form Etheree  (40%)
Metre 11101111 100101 110101001 01001101 11110101 110111 001110011 0111101 001110011 01101001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 374
Words 68
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 290
Words per stanza (avg) 66
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. more…

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