This is an analysis of the poem Cat Scat that begins with:

I am watching Cleo listening, our cat
listening to Mozart's Magic Flute. What...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaaaXaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11101010011 1000101011 110101 10110000111 011001101101 1101010011 111110100011 1101111110101 0101110110101 0101010100010101 010010101100 10011011101011 0100111100010101 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 627
  • Average number of words per stanza: 122
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word can is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines what, that are repeated).

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