This is an analysis of the poem Qu'Est-Ce Que Tu Fais Cette Année? that begins with:

Ce jour de l’an, un camarade
Que je n’attendais du tout point,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXXa bXcX XXXX XXdX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXXX cXXX XXbX XXdX XbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11011100 111100011 1110110 1110110 1111111 101111111 10110011 1110010 11011 0111110 1101111 111010110 1100111 11001100 1111110 110111 111111 1111101100 1111111111 101011100 11111111 111100 11111111 10110 111111110 1110110 110111111 11010110 0111110 10011010 1010110 11110110 11111110 10001011 01111010 110111111 11010011 1011110 11110110 11101100 11111101 11111111 1111111 111111 110101111 1111111100 11101111 111111110 1101111 11011000 101001 11110000 1101111 10100111 11101101111 11110111 1100101 1001110 11111111 01101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; e, de, je are repeated.

    The author used the same word en at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase je connects the lines.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Qu'Est-Ce Que Tu Fais Cette Année?;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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