This is an analysis of the poem The Eagle, The Sow, And The Cat that begins with:

THE Queen of Birds, t'encrease the Regal Stock,
Had hatch'd her young Ones in a stately Oak, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbccccbbddddeeffccccgghhiiddffeebbhhbbjjccaaiibbddkkee aaXbddllXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101100101 1101100101 1101110110 1101010101 0101110101 1100110101 11001100001 1001110101 1001010001 0101101001 11110111111 11001010101 1100011101 0101010101 1111100101 1101110101 1001011101 1111111101 1011010001 1111110101 1001010101 11011100001 1101010101 1101110111 1101101111 0100110001 11001111001 1101101011 1011100101 1101100101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 0101011101 01011000101 1010110101 1101010101 1101111101 1001010001 0111010101 1110110111 0111011111 0111100111 0101010101 1101010001 01000101001 1001010111 1101010001 1111001101 1111011101 1101111110 11111110101 1101010101 1111100101 1100111101 0111010001 1111010101 1101111111 1101011101 0101010110 1001110001 11011100101 0100010101 0111011101 0101010101 1100110001 0111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 991
  • Average number of words per stanza: 176
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, for are repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Eagle, The Sow, And The Cat;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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