Analysis of Red Dog
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
For our white and our excellent nights--for the nights of swift
running,
Fair ranging, far seeing, good hunting, sure cunning!
For the smells of the dawning, untainted, ere dew has departed!
For the rush through the mist, and the quarry blind-started!
For the cry of our mates when the sambhur has wheeled and is
standing at bay!
For the risk and the riot of night!
For the sleep at the lair-mouth by day!
It is met, and we go to the fight.
Bay! O bay!
Scheme | ABBCCDEFEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010100110111 10 110110110110 1011010010111010 1011010010110 10111011011101 1011 101001011 101101111 111011101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 450 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 347 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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