Analysis of The Black Cat Follows Me



The black cat follows me.
As it follows closely behind, precisely never missing a step
It meows loudly at me.
Right in my ear, and makes the day journey a schlep.

Everywhere I go I feel its gloomy presence looming.
And the power this cat holds.
The feelings are consuming
Oh the burnden it holds.

This black cat follows me day in and day out
always in the back of your mind.
Always there during happiness, hardship, and doubt.
The feelings it brings can make you blind.

And It's everywhere I go,
No matter how far or how fast I run.
Though the thick and the snow
This cat still follows me; It is something I will never be able to out run.

They say to just let this cat go
But even though it burdens me with much gloom
I have grown close with this cat, and It is something that I know.
Something I have grown accustomed to.

And when this cat nags,
Meowing louder and louder, same meows, same format.
I know that in my brain I can recognize these flags.
And in the end it is just a cat.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH GXGX IJIJ
Poetic Form Quatrain  (83%)
Metre 011101 11101001010101001 111011 101101011001 1011111101010 0010111 0101010 10111 11110110011 1001111 11101001001 010111111 011011 1101111111 101001 11110111101110110111 11111111 11011101111 111111101110111 101110101 01111 1100101111 111011111011 000111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,001
Words 218
Sentences 16
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted by kbeeton07 on December 15, 2023

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