This is an analysis of the poem Sleeping Like Napping Cats that begins with:
We guzzle up quick those sporting events.
With a rushing done to ease our minds, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXcXc cabded fefaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101111001 001010111 01001001101 01011101 1 10101101001 1011110 0110111001 111100101 0100111 1011010 011010111 101101 000110111001 110111011001 10101010011010 11101010101 1110100101101 1011010100010 10011101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sleeping Like Napping Cats;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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