This is an analysis of the poem The Linnet And The Cat that begins with:
WHEN fading Autumn's latest hours
Strip the brown wood, and chill the flowers,--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaa ffccgghhiiiiXbaaeeaa eeccaaddccffcchhee Xeffiiaaaaaabbeeaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,20,18,18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101010 101111010 11010111 0100100101 11010111 11110101 10111001 10010101 11110111 01110111 01001101 10010001 01110101 11010001 01010101 01110101 01011101 1101001 11110101 11010001 01010101 11000101 11110101 11010101 11110011 10010101 11110101 01010101 01110101 11110101 11110101 11010001 01010101 11010111 01110101 10111101 110101110 110111010 01010101 11010111 10100101 11100101 01011101 11010101 101011101 11110111 01111101 11011101 11011101 11010101 01010101 11011111 11010101 11110101 11010101 011101001 11111101 11110101 11110101 11011011 1101101010 110101010 11110111 11001111 11001101 01010111 11011101 11110001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 623
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and, he, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, who are repeated.
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- summary of The Linnet And The Cat;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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