This is an analysis of the poem Quand Au Mouton Belant that begins with:

Quand au mouton bêlant la sombre boucherie
Ouvre ses cavernes de mort,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXbXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011110 1110001 111101110 11101011 11011011111 1101110 10101111111 1001011 1110100101011 1111000 10111101111010 1000110 1011111010 1101011 101110010100 1010111 110110010111 1110110 11111111 0111110 110110111101 10101010 11010111 11101101 1111110110100 110110 011101110100 10101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1100
  • Average number of words per stanza: 194
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.

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