This is an analysis of the poem Waitin' Fer The Cat To Die that begins with:
Lawzy! don't I rickollect
That-'air old swing in the lane!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabbccddbB cacaeXbbccbB eeeeffggaXbB dcdcbbhhXbbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100 1111001 1110101 1111101 1110111 1111111 1111011 1110011 1001101 1011111 1010111 1010101 1110011 01000101 1011101 11101111 0110101 1101110 0110111 1011111 1010011 1110111 1111111 1010101 1111101 1010001 1111111 1111111 1111111 1010111 1111101 0011101 11111001 0110101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1011101 1011101 1111101 1111101 0111001 1001101 1011101 1011100 1101101 1111111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 378
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, old, and, ' are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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