This is an analysis of the poem The Cats that begins with:
Babels of blocks to the high heavens towering
Flames of futility swirling below;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd adad eded afaf gXgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100110100 1001001001 100100111100 1011011111 11010011010 1101001011 10111110010 1011011001 10110011010 1011011001 10010010110 1001011001 10010010010 1011001001 10010010010 1001001011 1101100101100 11110011001 1101010101100 1011101101 10110010110 10111110100 110010011010 1001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of are repeated.
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- summary of The Cats;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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