Analysis of Poe the Cat
Tom Case 1967 (California)
My autocrat of a
cat
sat on the pedestal
and watched me type.
His eyes, slits, like
slivers of emeralds.
He took a paw,
licked it, and
washed his despot face.
He owned me.
I did whatever he
wanted.
He sauntered off,
then turned and
watched , as I
took liberty with
truth, for the
sake of
imagination and creation.
I dreamed last
night that he could
talk.
He just said two words.
"Beautiful lies"
Scheme | AXXXXX XBXCCXXBXXAXX XXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1 110100 0111 1111 10110 1101 110 11101 111 11101 10 111 110 111 11001 110 11 00100010 111 1111 1 11111 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 397 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 13, 5 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Written on February 14, 2023
Submitted by toddcase888 on February 14, 2023
Modified by toddcase888 on February 14, 2023
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