Analysis of Black Cat



Black Cat, Black Cat
Put on your black hat.
Black Cat, Black Cat
Lay on your black mat.
Black Cat, Black Cat
Play with a black bat.
Black Cat, Black cat
You are so fat.
Black Cat, Black Cat
Eat a black rat.


Scheme AaAaAaAaAa
Poetic Form Tetractys  (50%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 1111 11111 1111 11111 1111 11011 1111 1111 1111 1011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 197
Words 43
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 154
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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