This is an analysis of the poem Le Chat (The Cat) that begins with:
Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon coeur amoureux;
Retiens les griffes de ta patte,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXX XXb C cddc XEfG dcc chg X C cici fdfd dbX ccb i C XXdc iEfG Xfc ahg Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111100 10110011 111101111 101110 11110010 1111110 111110010 0101110 11111101101 101101 1011111111 1111011 1110110010 10100111 01 1011011001 11010011 1110011001 010110 1110100011 11110101 1111100010 010101010 0101111001 11110001 0111111101 10011001 0101010001 10101010 010110100 01 1111011101 1111110 1111001101 1101010 11110101110 111101 11110100010 010101 11011101010 111111 11111111010 1111110 11010101110 010111 0101110 01 1100111011101 1101011 111100101001 1010110 111010010 11110101 111110010 010101010 1101011001001 11110 111111101 1001001 010101010001 1010110 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, your, and, my, her are repeated.
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- summary of Le Chat (The Cat);
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More information about poems by Charles Baudelaire
- Analysis of Le Poison (The Poison)
- Analysis of Epilogue
- Analysis of Le Mort Joyeux (The Joyful Corpse)
