This is an analysis of the poem A Une Chatte that begins with:

Chatte blanche, chatte sans tache,
Je te demande, dans ces vers,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX bbXb XXXX aXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 11110111 11011111 1101111 11101011 1111111 10101010 1111110101 11011110 1111001 11001010 1010011 1011 10111110 11110011 1001011 10111110 11111110 11010111 1111110 1111111 11010100 111100 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; que, nos are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words quel, o are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vres, mes are repeated).

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