Analysis of How It All Began

Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)



So we settled it all when the storm was done
As comfy as comfy could be;
And I was to wait in the barn, my dears,
Because I was only three.
And Teddy would run to the rainbow's foot
Because he was five and a man--
And that's how it all began, my dears,
And that's how it all began!


Scheme ABCBDECE
Poetic Form
Metre 11101110111 11011011 0111100111 0111101 010111011 01111001 011110111 0111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 282
Words 62
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 210
Words per stanza (avg) 60
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 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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