Analysis of The Braggart
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
Petrolio, vaunting his Mercedes' power,
Vows she can cover eighty miles an hour.
I tried the car of old and know she can.
But dare he ever make her? Ask his man!
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11101010 11110101110 1101110111 1111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 176 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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