This is an analysis of the poem C’est Lou Qu’on La Nommait that begins with:

Il est des loups de toute sorte
Je connais le plus inhumain...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXaXX aXaaX XXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111011 111001100 1110110 110111 1111111 1110110 1111010 11101011 100110110 1011111 11001111 11110100 111011100 1110010 110111 11111010 1111110 11111011 1101111 1110100 101001000 11010101 111111000 10111110 11110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • 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; le, les are repeated.

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  • summary of C’est Lou Qu’on La Nommait;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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