This is an analysis of The Beginning Of The Armadilloes by Rudyard Kipling.

I've never sailed the Amazon,
I've never reached Brazil;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb acdDdC XXXbXdcDddC
  • Stanza lengths: 4,6,11,
  • Metre: 11010101 110101 10111010 1111110 1100010 110111 1101010 1111010 11101010 110101 1101011 111100 1100010 1111100 0111010 110001 1111010 1101010 11101010 110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

down, i, roll, to, rio

Anaphora

i've, roll

Epiphora

rio