This is an analysis of the poem Le Chat Et La Lunette that begins with:

Un chat sauvage et grand chasseur
S'établit, pour faire bombance,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaXXXXbXbXaXXaaXXcXXXXXdXdbXXXXXXbXcXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110 101110 1011110 11011011100 11111011101 011110010 10010010011 1101100 1101100100 110101111100 0110110 1001101111 111101110 101111011 1101010100110 1001110110101 1011110110110 1101100 10110111011 011001111101 0110110 110111010 1110110101 111101011 101111 1101110011 0111110110 10110011110 1101111111101 11111110110 11011010111 111001110101 11111111010 01111010 1111111 11110100 11101110 110011101101 1010111011010 101001111011 010111111011 10111111 10111110 10010110 10101010 1111111 111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 956
  • Average number of words per stanza: 182
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; le, la, il, par are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, la, on are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Chat Et La Lunette;
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