This is an analysis of the poem Ode To The Cat that begins with:
The animals were imperfect,
long-tailed,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXaaabab fcgaadaaafahc ijeahccklcgmj fnifdcmjjnnabhXfhga anaakgagcooaloeilhaaeefagXfba dXaXiicnbfgaanc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,13,19,29,15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000010 11 0100011 101101 101010 1001011 0100111 01 1001 010111 11101010 10011101110 1100111 0111011 01000101010 01011100010 01100001 0101010101 101 1010001 1101001 0010001 001010001 0011 00100101 101100 11 011010 111110 10111 1011011 1001010011 011101 010011 0101 111 1 0101011 110 10001010100 10001010 101011010 10001 0001011 0101 001 11 111 11 11001 101 10 100 1100100 01101 0101 1001001001 1101011 001 100 10001 10010 1100 1011 10010 011 0100 00 10110 10101 010 0110 011110100 101101 1101 00101000100 01101010 1010101010 0100 10 001 010 10 010 11 001 11 11101 111101 110111010011 01100100010 100 01001010 01101001010 00101001 001100101 001100010 011000001 111001001 1101100100 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, his, you, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, from, i are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cat is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word cat at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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