This is an analysis of the poem Cat Parody On Poe's that begins with:
The other night while we lay musing, and our weary brain confusing o'er the topics of the day,
Suddenly we heard a rattling, as of serious hosts...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bX cc dd bb XbXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101111101110101010010001 10011010010100101001110001 10111100100010101110101 11101010110011111010111010 11111010111010101011101 11101111111010111110111 10101010111111101111111 10001010110100111001010101 001001101101010101110101 1101010101010101110101 1111100101101111101110011 10111010011010101010101 1010011010101101010111 101010100010111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 95 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 18
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, and, as, ', our are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word door at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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