This is an analysis of the poem Cat's Dream that begins with:
How neatly a cat sleeps,
sleeps with its paws and its posture,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdccef gXgbXdabc hgbfXXhbbc geXceagf Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,9,10,8,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011 10011010 100101 1000101 10101 0100110 111010100 001101 11101101 010101 001111 0011010 11010011 1111001 101111 00100010 0101011 11110101 1101101 1101110 111011001 1100100 0101010 01011101 10101110 111001010 1111010 111001 001001010 111111 110111 0100100 0110010 010101 1011011 01011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, sleeps, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sleeps, with are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase sleeps connects the lines.
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