This is an analysis of the poem La Brebis Et Le Chien that begins with:
La brebis et le chien, de tous les temps amis,
Se racontaient un jour leur vie infortunée....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011110 111001111100 1101101111111 111111001010 11001100110 1010111 1111011 1111001 11111110 1110111111 1111101000110 010111 1101110111 10001100 100111110111 1101010 1011101111110 1100101 11111111 10011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 801
- Average number of words per stanza: 154
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, le, qui are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines le is repeated).
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