This is an analysis of the poem Last Words To A Dumb Friend that begins with:

Pet was never mourned as you,
Purrer of the spotless hue,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcccdddd eeeeddfXgg hXhhggXd iiddbbjjfffcX XdkkggllXcceedd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,10,8,13,15,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 1000101 1011101 11100111 11001101 1011101 1010001 1010111 1010101 1111101 1001101 10010111 1111100 1010111 1010101 10101001 1011111 1000101 1011000 1010101 10011111 0011011 1011110 1010111 1010101 1010101 0011111 11111100 10111001 1000101 0101100 0110111 0111111 101000110 0010111 1110101 0011101 1010101 0010100 11100001 1110110 001000 101001100 1010001 10111010 10111010 1011101 0100101 1010001 1110001 10011111 1000101 1011101 1110101 1000101 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words better, subject are repeated.

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