Analysis of Many Inventions
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
'Less you want your toes trod of you'd better get back at once,
For the bullocks are walking two by two,
The byles are walking two by two,
And the elephants bring the guns.
Ho! Yuss!
Great-big-long-black-forty-pounder guns.
Jiggery-jolty to and fro,
Each as big as a launch in tow --
Blind-dumb-broad-breeched--beggars o' battering-guns!
| Scheme | ABBCACDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111101111 1010110111 01110111 00100101 11 111110101 11101 11110101 11111011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 337 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 258 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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