This is an analysis of Timothy by Rose Fyleman.

MY cat Timothy who has such lovely eyes
Is really not a cat at all ; it's only a disguise.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbb ca cc dc d eX e ba b fX fX gfXg
  • Stanza lengths: 5,2,2,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,2,4,
  • Metre: 11100111101 01010111010001 01101110111 11100111 1101 1111101101 11000101101 01 111010010 11 1110101101 1 0101010010001 11001000110 1 11010010001 101011000101 11 111110101 1000101110 1 10101111110 1 11110101010 101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 13
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

cat, in