This is an analysis of the poem Le Marchand D'Éventails that begins with:

Ô Dames belles et honnestes,
Venez voir mes beaux éventails...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXa XXbXXX XXXXXX XbXXcc XXXXXX XXXbcc XXdeXf ghXgiX XjjXXX jXXjXb dXXXXX XfiXXX XXXXXX fXXXhe XahXXX XXXXXX eXeXcX dXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100 1011110 111101 11100110 110110 010011 110101100 111111 11111100 11010100 1001011 111111101 11111110 111110 11011010 110111111 10111110 1110111 111111 101111 111010 1110101 111111 10110001 1010011 01011101 100111110 111111 111011 101111010 1011110 0110100 11011 10110110 01001110 111010110 111110 11011010 111110 1011111 101111010 110011 110110 11101011 11111111 111110 110111 10111 11111111 111111 11100110 110111111 11111001 1100101 1100100 1001100 11101111 1110110 11100110 101111010 110001 101101 11000110 1110111 11010100 11001101 10111011 0110100 1001100 101110 1111100 10110010 111111 11001101 1110100 011011 11101010 11001010 10110010 01010110 1110110 1111000 1110011 11001100 11001101 10101010 110111 1111110 1101101 111010 1011111 11111 11111001 1110100 111111 11001011 1111 11101 110111 1111 11011111 0111110 11111111 1110111 100111 1111100 1101101 10101111 11001001 1110110 111111 101011 11101010 111011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, pour, en, des, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word que is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, cieux are repeated).

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  • summary of Le Marchand D'Éventails;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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