Analysis of Ride to Kandahar
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Then we brought the lances down--then the trumpets blew--
When we went to Kandahar, ridin' two an' two.
Ridin'--ridin'--ridin' two an' two!
Ta-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra-a!
All the way to Kandahar,
Ridin' two an' two.
| Scheme | AAABCA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101110101 11111001111 111111 1111110 1011100 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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