This is an analysis of The Eel Pie by Jean De La Fontaine.
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find,
It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabC bbddeeffbC aabC eeggaX hhddeeeeaa iiggjjggbbkldXfXmmggmm aaee eeeenndd ooaaeell ddfflleelkaaggbC eeaaddeeggbb iIggggppiI qqggaaaaggXaaeeaabc
- Stanza lengths: 4,10,4,6,10,22,4,8,8,16,12,10,19,
- Metre: 1101001101 01001110101 1111111011 1101000100 1101010101 0111011111 010110111101 0101010111 1101010101 1101010011 0110110101 1001001011 0101000111 1101000100 0101011101 1111010101 0100100101 1101000100 0101010111 1111110101 01100110101 0101010101 0101010101 010111010110 1101010101 0101011101 1101000101 0101010101 1101000101 1101010101 111101001 0101110101 11010111101 1111010101 1101000101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010111 1101010001 1001011101 1101111101 1111110101 1101101101 1011111101 11010111010 1101010101 0101110101 1101010101 1100010101 0111101111 1111110111 1111011101 1111011101 1101010011 1111011011 1100111101 0101011101 1101011101 1101011101 0101111101 0101111101 0101011111 1101011101 1101010111 0011110101 1101111111 1101110111 1101011101 0100111111 1101110101 11001011111 1111011101 0101111101 1101010011 1101010111 1101111011 1101010101 11010010001 1111110101 1111110101 1111110001 11101010101 1101001011 1101011101 1101011101 11111101010 1101010111 1101011101 0111110011 0101111101 01010010101 1101000100 1101010101 0011001101 11001001111 1101110101 1111010101 0101010101 1101110111 0101010101 1101010101 0111010101 0100010111 1101010001 0101110101 0101010101 0110110111 01011011101 1101010001 0101010010 10101011101 1101110101 1001010011 0101010101 1100010101 010110101 0100111111 1101010101 1101000111 1101010011 1101110001 1101010111 11010110101 1101000101 01010100101 01000010101 1111010101 10011110101 0101010101 0101110111 1111011110 0101010100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 132
Repeated words/phrases
to, you, i, me, or, he
Anaphora
the, you
