This is an analysis of Pharaoh And The Sergeant by Rudyard Kipling.

". . . Consider that the meritorious services of the Sergeant Instructors attached to the Egyptian Army haue been inadequately acknowledged. . . . To the excellence of their work is mainly due the great improvement that has taken place in the soldiers of H.H. the Khedive." -- Extract from Letter, 1897

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  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 60

Repeated words/phrases

of, i, that, and, there, down, to, he

Anaphora

that, it, and, there