This is an analysis of the poem Le Bestiaire that begins with:
Le chat
Je souhaite dans ma maison :...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXbX bcXcX XXXXX bXXXX ddeXX XXXXX XXXXX XXfXf XXXXX XXXaX Xfbed XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 11101110 1110110 111010110 1101110 1101111111 010 1010010 11110000 1111100101 1011100 01 111110110 1011100 11101101 111110 010 11101110 111011101 110011001 1100101 110 1101001 1101111 111110111 11111 1 111110 111111 11111 111110 11 11010110 1110011 11010011 1100011 01 1011111 10101101 101010 1110011111 11 1010001 11000100 11101110 111111110 010 11101110 101101101 01101011 111101111 11010 110111111 11111101 1011010111 11011111 010 111101011100 110111101110 1111101 111100011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, m, vous, qu'on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hibou, sie are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase lion connects the lines.
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