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 |
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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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