This is an analysis of the poem To A Cat that begins with:
STATELY, kindly, lordly friend,
Condescend... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXa ccddee ffaaaa ddddgg hhiijj jjaabb jjkkdX iiddjj jjaall bbmmnnXjjbbjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 101 1011111 10011111 1011101 1010111 1110101 111 1010111 1011101 11100101 10100100 1111111 111 10101001 1010101 1110111 1010101 1010101 101 10101001 10100101 1011101 1110101 1111101 111 11101101 111001001 1011100 1111101 1110111 1001 10100111 10101001 1110111 1011101 1011101 111 1110111 1111101 1110011 1111110 1111111 1110 1111111 1011101 1111101 1111111 1111111 101 11111001 1011101 1010101 1010101 1110101 111 1011111 11111001 1110111 1010111 1011101 101 1111101 10111111 1110111 10101111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, as, of are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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