This is an analysis of Kaa’s Hunting by Rudyard Kipling.

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.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 01101001001101011 01101001001101001 0111010111101011011 11111001111011001 011010010110110110 111110110010010110 101101101001001001 101001101101111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

his, of, and