This is an analysis of the poem The Cat's Song that begins with:
Mine, says the cat, putting out his paw of darkness.
My lover, my friend, my slave, my toy, says ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abca dadd bXea Xfba ecbf Xa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110101010 1101111111 0110111010010 100100101 111001101 1110101001 010011110101 1110111111 11111011111 101111111011 111101010110 11111111011 1111100101101 1010111110111 11111111010010 101111110011 110110111000 1100111011011 111011110110 10101111101001 011011001111 10110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, his, to, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words can, my are repeated.
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- summary of The Cat's Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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