This is an analysis of the poem Coin De Tableau that begins with:

Tiède et blanc était le sein.
Toute blanche était la chatte....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXa XaaX aXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 11111 0110011 111001 1100011 101101 110101 101011 111101 1001011 1110111 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; sein, le, la, chatte are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Coin De Tableau;
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