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
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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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. more…

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