Analysis of How the Rhinoceros got His Skin
Rudyard Kipling 1865 (Mumbai) – 1936 (London)
This Uninhabited Island
Is near Cape Gardafui;
But it's hot--too hot--of Suez
For the likes of you and me
Ever to go in a P. & O.
To call on the Cake Parsee.
| Scheme | ABCDEC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010010 1111 11111110 1011101 10110011 111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 160 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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