Analysis of Kaa’s Hunting
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buffalo’s pride.
Be clean, for the strength of the hunter is known by the gloss of his hide.
If ye find that the bullock can toss you, or the heavy-browed Sambhur can gore;
Ye need not stop work to inform us: we knew it ten seasons before.
Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother,
For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother.
‘There is none like to me !’ says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.
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Metre | 1110110101110101 11101101011101111 111101011110101111 11111101111111001 011011010111110010 11111001111011110 111111101001111001 101011001111111011 |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 57 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 457 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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