This is an analysis of the poem Jupe Ou Culotte that begins with:

Quoi prévaut ? Culotte ou jupe
Telle est l’âpre question...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbX XXXX XXXX dXXX XXXX XeXe XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XaeX XXXX XXXd XXXX XdXd XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011 101110 1101010 110010 1010111 1111011 111111 1110011 100010 11010 11100 1110010 1101100 101001 1010110 1111010 1001101 1010010 111111 1101 0111100 11111111 1111010 110111 101111 111011 110111 11101011 010111 1100100 11111110 1011010 11111 111111 111110 1111111 100110 101011010 1111100 11011 1101110 111111 110011 111111 11101111 11110111 11100110 110011 1111111 10101101 11110101 01000110 111111 1111000 110011 100111 110110 1111010 1011010 1101110 10110100 111101 111101 111011 1011100 01110 111101110 111101 110101 110111 111110 1011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • 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; nous is repeated.

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