This is an analysis of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling.

At the hole where he went in
Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX bcbc dcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1011110 1110101 1110111 101111011 1011101 1101010 0111101 1111010 1111111 1111110 1010111 1101110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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