This is an analysis of the poem The Urban Rat And The Suburban Rat that begins with:

A metropolitan rat invited
His country cousin in town to dine:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXbbb XcXXXac ddX dbe deXae fgfgddg XgXXX bbg fXXXffX bbbbddX Xh XXhddh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,3,3,5,7,5,3,7,7,2,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101001010 010100101 0101001100 1101100010 0111001010 01010 101 11110010100 110101101 01011111100 110100 1 1 1 0101001110 01110 01100 1110101010 11010 1101 0100111010 110010101 0111011010 11010 0101 0101011010 110010101 1101111010 110100101 1111101010 11010 0111 11111111010 111110101 0101101010 101111 100 11111001011 11011 0111 11101001010 111110110 10111111100 110101111 0101111010 11110 1101 1111001010 111001101 110110001010 111110101 1101101010 11010 1110 0100101010 010101101 0100101100 010010101 0100011010 11110 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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 author used the same word 'you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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