This is an analysis of Mowgli's Song Against People by Rudyard Kipling.

I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines--
I will call in the Jungle to stamp out your lines!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabCXc ddeXXb XXXfXf bbeXXf aaXCXc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 101101101101 101001001111 0111010 01111 10100010100 11001 0010111011011 0010111001111 10110110 101010 10100010100 11111 1111110111011 1101011101111 10110110 101101 10100010100 11111 10111011101001 11101110101101 10110110 1010100 10100010100 11111 110101101101 111001001111 0101111 01111 10100010100 11011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 30

Anaphora

i, the, in