This is an analysis of the poem Wild Gratitude that begins with:
Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey,
And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcddef fgfXXXf Xhfbfcbe giXadXdd jdjhebcfXd gieXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,8,8,10,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111110111 11110000111 11010101010110 1101010011001 1100010101001 1110010101001 110011110110 01010010101 111010011111 001010100101101 10111010101 10111010110 1101101110101 100110110101 10110011010010 01011110110100 1110000101110100 1010011100100 1100100010010 10101110101010 010110111101 11110110110 101001001010 111000111 11001101011 101001011111 11110011001 1101011110110 0010110110101 11011101101 010100111111 1111010101 111011100111 1011100101 010100110100 101001110100 0110101001 010100101101 10100010010001 0101100110010 1110111010001 110101101 001011001011 111110110 01110 1001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; her, and, his, day, of, for, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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