This is an analysis of the poem The Colubriad that begins with:
Close by the threshold of a door nailed fast
Three kittens sat; each kitten looked aghast;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdXeeXffddeXeeaaggcchhggaaaaiiaaaacc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101100111 1101110101 1101110101 1011010101 1101011101 1101010101 11000111001 1101100111 1101011111 01011101001 0101110101 100101111 1001010101 1101010111 0111110101 1001000101 01001111111 1001110111 1111010111 0111110001 0101011111 1101011101 1101111001 1101010101 1101010001 11011110111 1101011011 1011101101 1111111001 1111011001 1001011111 10111110111 0101010101 11001010110 0110010111 1001010101 11010010111 1111101101 1101010001 0011111101 1111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1767
- Average number of words per stanza: 341
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, door, and, i, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, and are repeated.
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