This is an analysis of the poem Une Soirée Chez La Perruche that begins with:

Dame Perruche, un soir, recevait compagnie ;
Le cercle était nombreux, quoiqu’à ses visiteurs...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXaXXXXXX XbXXXbXXXXXXcbbXXXXXXXXXXcXb bXXbX XXXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,28,5,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100100 01110101100 1110110100 1111111 11100010110 11000110 11101011 101010100 111110 1011011010 11111110 1101010 01000110 1111111111 0111101 1101111110 11010011 1101110100 01011111100 1010111 11001100 011001011111 1010110101110 111010 1111111110110 10101111001 1010001001 11101011001 101101 10011111010 1011101010 1110010 111010010 1101100 11011110011 11101100 1101110111 110100110111 11101110 1010110 11101110011 110111010 10111110 1110101000 11110100 1110010 1001011000 10001111100 11101011000 1110011110 10110101110 111011101 110110110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; et, la, de are repeated.

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  • summary of Une Soirée Chez La Perruche;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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