Analysis of Cat Talk 1
Chirruping and warbling meows:
feline language for welcome home
Tiptoe dancing and tail held high
Salute-greeting, a micro-tome
Unhurried, short and soft meows:
stories and information tell
Today's big doings, what's gone down
All complaints and good things as well
Sustained, incessant, loud meows:
vocalizing high-pitched demand
"Give me food or litter-box change"
Claiming "the chair" requires a stand
The plaintively cadenced meows:
histrionic protestation
For being brushed, claws clipped, ears washed
And the dreaded medication
| Scheme | ABXB ACXC ADXD AEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101001 1101101 1100111 0110011 0101011 1000101 01110111 10101111 0101011 11101 11111011 100101001 01011 01010 11011111 0010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 518 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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