This is an analysis of How The Leopard Got His Spots by Rudyard Kipling.

I am the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in Most wise tones,
"Let us melt into the landscape -- just us two by our lones."…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabbaaccdd
  • Stanza lengths: 11,
  • Metre: 1101110100111 10110001111111100 10110010101100 1 1111011111111 11100111110111 11100101101011 11101101110111 110100101110011 111110111111 1111101111011001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

let's