This is an analysis of the poem An Encounter With A Mother Cat that begins with:

I shall never forget a night in Ramadan,
Long and somber like the polar nights...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcdeffgfeaXfchgXiedhejjbeihdkkjaaf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001010101 111010101 1111011 101001110111 1011010010100 110111100010001 1011101011001101101 10011001111110 1011110110001 11111111110 1111101001 1010010001000101 111110110101010 1010010110 10111001101101 10010101010110001 110101100110110011 11010100101100011 1100100101000101 110111010010 100101000100100 11010100111101 1110100111001 110111010 1101010110110010 1101111011001 11001100110010 11011110111010 01101011101001 11011011100111010 1101101010101010 111101001 1111010110110 101101000111 111101101010 0111111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1901
  • Average number of words per stanza: 342
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, like, she, her, of, to, and, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, she, they are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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