This is an analysis of Red Dog by Rudyard Kipling.

For our white and our excellent nights--for the nights of swift
running,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbccXdadad
  • Stanza lengths: 11,
  • Metre: 11111100110101 10 110110010110 1010010010111010 1011011010110 10101110101110 1011 101101001 101101111 001111001 111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

for, and

Anaphora

for