This is an analysis of The Cat by Jibanananda Das.

All day I inevitably encounter a cat here and there
In the shadow of trees or out in the sun, around…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXXcaXde aabfeXbXf
  • Stanza lengths: 11,9,
  • Metre: 1110100001001111 0011011100101 010101 111011001101 0011 01000100011 1001001011 01011 111001110101 0010001 1111011001 11111 011010111 111001011001 100011101001010 00101 11110101010001 1100101 01011010100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

of, he