Le Renard Qui Prêche by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Le Renard Qui Prêche that begins with:

Un vieux renard cassé, goutteux, apoplectique,
Mais instruit, éloquent, disert,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101000 1101010 11011110 11111111 11111101100 11011111100 111110 10101110 10110011 111101111010 1010010101 1011101111100 11101010 110101110110 111101111100 110110010010 1111110110 111010 1111100 10110010110 10110110110 10010101010 10100110110 111011 11110011011 010110 0011101110 01110111111 111001011111110 1101011 11110011110 1001111011 0110111 11001001010 111001101 10110101 11010110110 11001001001 1100011101111 1011110111 11111110 11100111011 00110101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1764
  • Average number of words per stanza: 312
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, la are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Renard Qui Prêche;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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