This is an analysis of Lisy's Parting With Her Cat by James Thomson.
The dreadful hour with leaden pace approached,
Lashed fiercely on by unrelenting fate,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaabcabbdeefbghbXiaXjgabfcakbiXbeebcdcllhdbjhXhifcblgakbdfa
- Stanza lengths: 59,
- Metre: 01010010101 1101110101 1101010111 1101110101 11000101001 1101010111 0011111101 0101010101 100101011 1101010101 1011010101 1111010001 1111010101 0011110101 1101001101 1100111111 01011101001 10111101001 01011101011 10111101010 1111101101 1101100111 010010100101 1101011101 1111111101 1001100101 110101011001 1101110101 1101100101 1101001001 1100010101 11010111010 1101001100 1011111111 0101111101 1101111101 1111000101 1111010101 0101011101 1100010101 1101011111 1111011101 1111111101 0101111101 1111110101 1111110110 1101110101 1011111111 00101010101 1101110101 11010111001 1111111111 1111110001 1101010001 0101000101 1001001101 1101100101 1001011111 1011110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 59
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, with, me, my, i, you
