This is an analysis of the poem The Young Rat And His Dam, The Cock And The Cat that begins with:

No Cautions of a Matron, Old and Sage,
Young Rattlehead to Prudence cou'd engage; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddd ddeeccff gghhcciiidd jjkXXjj kkddeekkll mmcckk eeebb nnii llee jjhhh cceeddkkkooaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,11,7,10,6,5,4,4,5,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1100010111 1100010101 1101100111 1101111111 1101110101 1111010111 1101011101 1101100101 100101110101 1101010101 01010101001 1001110001 10110100101 1101011101 0101110101 1001110101 1111010001 0101000101 0111010001 0101010101 1100010111 1011011111 0101010101 1111101101 0101110101 1101010111 1111110101 1001111101 1101110111 1100001101 0101110101 1111101010 1011010011 1100010111 111101010101 11110101010 11011100010 0111111111 0101010111 1100010101 1101010001 0101010101 1101000111 1110011101 1001010011 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1111111010101 0111010101 01001100101 1110010101 1101110111 1111010011 1111111101 1010011101 01110101001 11011100001 1111010101 1101011101 1101110101 1111010101 1101110101 0111010101 0101011111 1111011011 0111100111 1001010011 1101001111 0111010111 1011011111 110010110101 0101011101 1011011001 0100011101 1111001101 1111011101 1111111101 1111001111 1111111111 1101010001 1100011101 111101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 83
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; in, you, he, and, his, of are repeated.

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

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