This is an analysis of How The Whale Got His Throat by Rudyard Kipling.

When the cabin port-holes are dark and green
Because of the seas outside…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abaXbccddX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1010111111 0100111 10111001001 1101000110 110101 1101101001 110110101 1110101111 1110101101 1100111010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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