The Cat And The Moon by William Butler Yeats: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Cat And The Moon that begins with:

THE cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababcXcdededbbbDdcffgegDfbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111 10111101 10101001 010111 11001101 11011111 0111001 1001001 1001001 1001001 111100111 111101 1101101 100111 10011010 0111 1001101 011101 0101101 110011 110011010 010101 1101010 0100111 1001101 0101011 1100101 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 855
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; and, to, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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