This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of A Cat that begins with:
Who shall tell the lady's grief
When her Cat was past relief?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeecX ffgghhggeeiijjiiXccii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1011101 1110011 110001010 1110101 1010111 1110111 10100011 1110101 11101011 1110101 1010100 0010111 1100101 11111001 1010001 11111001 100010101 1010101 1001101 1111001 1111111 1010101 0110101 1011100 1010101 1110111 1011111 1010101 0111111 1010111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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