This is an analysis of the poem Les Chats (Cats) that begins with:

Les amoureux fervents et les savants austères
Aiment également, dans leur mûre saison,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXXX bXa XaX c bbcd XcbX bdb Cdb X c edde fbbf ggc hhc h c diid cbbc jdb djb a c bacj jbXd bcg Cdb Xc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110010111010 1010011110 111011100110 111110111100 10011010110 11001011011 1111111010 11011010011 110110110101 111101111000 11010011111 11111100100 1110011010101 1001001100100 1 1101010110 101010 0111011001 11011010110001 1010110010 110101010010 100111010101 0111101010 111101010101 001010110101 110100010101 1011110101 11000111101 10101101 010110100 1 1001110101 0111010101 0111100111 0101110101 1101110110 1011010101 1001110011 0101110011 1001010101 0101010001 1101001101 10111101110 11000111010 1001110111 0101110 1 1111010001011 100100110101 101100011101 1111010110001 1101010101001 101111010101 100111001001 111111011100 111101010100 010101010101 111000110111 110111010101 100101001100 1100010101001 0101110 1 101010110 110001110 11001101001 1011011011010 1010110100 1101010100011 10011001010010 1101010111 101111010 110110010100 100101001101 1011110101 11001111 101011010 01010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; les, et, and, they, of, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bres is repeated).

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