Analysis of How the Leopard Got His Spots

Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)



I am the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in Most wise tones,
"Let us melt into the landscape -- just us two by our lones."
People have come -- in a carriage -- calling. But Mummy is
there. . . .
Yes, I can go if you take me--Nurse says she don't care.
Let's go up to the pig-styes and sit on the farmyard rails!
Let's say things to the bunnies, and watch 'em skitter their tails!
Let's'-oh, anything, daddy, so long as it's you and me,
And going truly exploring, and not being in till tea!
Here's your boots (I've brought 'em), and here's your cap and stick,
And here's your pipe and tobacco. Oh, come along out of it -- quick!


Scheme AABCCDDEEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 110111100111 11101011111101 10110010101101 1 1111111111111 1111011011011 1111010011111 1110101111101 010100100110011 111111011101 011100111011111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 619
Words 122
Sentences 13
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 448
Words per stanza (avg) 122
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. more…

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