Analysis of Sonnet To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroy'd? How many tit bits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green, and prick
Those velvet ears -- but pr'ythee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me -- and upraise
Thy gentle mew -- and tell me all thy frays,
Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick.
Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists--
For all thy wheezy asthma -- and for all
Thy tail's tip is nick'd off -- and though the fists
Of many a maid have given thee many a maul,
Still is that fur as soft, as when the lists
In youth thou enter'dest on glass bottled wall.
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Metre | 1111111 1101011011 0111011101 1111010101 110111111 110100101 1101011111 1101010101 1111111101 111110011 1111110101 1100111011001 1111111101 01110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 628 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 479 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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