This is an analysis of House Pets by Alice Duer Miller.

THE white cat is sleeping by the fire,
With her paws tucked under her chin,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb XcXc cbXb aXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0110101010 00111001 1011101010 1111110 1000111011 01000111 10110101010 1111111 11111100010 11101110101 111000111010 111101101 111111111110 11000101011 111010111010 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

and, her, it, she, i

Anaphora

and