This is an analysis of the poem To Mrs. Professor In Defense Of My Cat's Honor And Not Only that begins with:
My valiant helper, a small-sized tiger
Sleeps sweetly on my desk, by the computer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaX bcd eae dbf ddd fff gXc edf XgX cfX geX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001110 11011110010 101110101 11001100111 11110110100 11010111 110111110100 11010100010 101001110001 1111110100 0100010001010 1010111101 10010010010 11111010110 110111011000 10010010010 1001111001 11010010001 1010011100 10100110 11010111100 11001110 01001110100 11100011 1101111 101001101110 111111110001 1000101110 110011100101 10101110101010 100110101101 0101001010010 11100110101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
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