This is an analysis of the poem Milk For The Cat that begins with:
When the tea is brought at five o'clock,
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xdefd ccXc cgcg hafa cici XeXe hdjdXjbjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 101011101 1101101101 010110111 0100101 11101101001 11101001101 11110110110 10 10101 11000101 1011101 1010101001 010111 111011101 110110101 11001011001 1101001 010111011 01110111 101011110010 010010111 0110111101 11001001001 11111111 100001 110100101 100100101 01111101 010101101 011100101 0101100101 1011101101 11110001 11101001 010100111 10101101 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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