This is an analysis of the poem Le Rat De Ville Et Le Rat Des Champs that begins with:
Un jour le rat des champs, ami du rat de ville,
Invita son ami dans son rustique asile....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXXXXXX XbcXXXcX XXXXXXXXXXXX aXXXXXXXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111100101 100110111010 1110110011 110001011 11101111101 111110110110 1101011110 01111101 110001110100 101111110 1101101101110 10110011110 10110111111 11110011101 11011101 1111111101101 10110111100 1110111110 11111010110 1111010111101 010011011 1111110110100 100100111010 1110111110111 1110111101010 011101100110 111011111010 110110010100 111101101 11010110110 10010100010 11111001100 0100111110 1111111100 11010001111 101111101110 11011100011 11111111110 1101110111 111010110110 10010010011 1010110111101 11111111011 01011111100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 509
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; son, et, on are repeated.
The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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