This is an analysis of the poem Le Mendiant that begins with:

C'était quand le printemps a reverdi les prés.
La fille de Lycus, vierge aux cheveux dorés,...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,17,11,63,18,13,21,9,14,32,10,14,26,32,33,7,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010010011 1101011101 111101101 10111011110 111010111001 10001000101 1011 011111111 11101111 1101111 11111100010 11111101011 1111110101100 11011100110 011011100111 111110101001 111111101101 1010111111011 110111110101 1001011100110 11110111110 10101111110 11011110010 101100110001 1111110110 11111111011 101111101100 111011111 11111111 101011011 1011011011 11001110011 11111 1010011110 111111011100 110110101110 10110111011 111011110 1111011101 111111110010 101101111011 10110111110110 1111101100 1011011110 10011110010 1110100110 10101101101 101110111100 1110101011 100111001001 11111110100 1011000110 11101101010 111011111001 1001011101 1101111111 111101111 111110101 11111011101 1101010100010 110101101011 1111010011 011110101111 110110111110 0111111110 111110001 10100110100 1101000101110 11111111110 1100110101100 1101010001 11011001111 10111100100 011110110100 110111011100 111101111100 111010110100 1111110100 1101001011 1101101100 1011011110100 1110111101000 111001110101 1111110110 10101110011 01101101011 1111101111 101110111111010 11110110011 11101101101 101011101000 111110111010 11010101011 11111110110 1011111101 10101011010 11111110110 10111010011 011101110 1011101010 10110111110 11111110111000 100110010101 10101111010 101100111100 11110011100 1111100110100 110101010 1101011101110 11111101010 1111010010 0110010101011 101110101 1111110101 111110111110 010100011101 110110110 11011011110 1111111110010 11111101010 100100011101 101100110010111 11101001111 10100111010 1010101101 10011011101 10110111011 10011011111 11111101011 111011010110 1010010100110 1011100110 111011111110 1001101010 10101011110 11101110001 11110011101100 1101111111 111010101110 1001011101001 11110010110 01110011111 1011101110101 11111010011 11110111111 1110111100111 1101111100 11011111010 11110111011 11001110111 1011101101 11100110110 110101111110 111110101100 1011000111111 110111111011 111101111 11100111100 1010010110 01011111011 1010111101110 11010111 0111110011 101111100100 1101010101 111111111011 111111011111 111010100110 01010111110 11100111101 01001011110 1001111100011 1111111101100 1101111111 111101110 101111111101 0110110111 1011011110 101111100110 1001101010100 10101100100 111111101 10111111010 11101110110 111111011111 1110011111110 11101111110 11011101100 11110111101000 11110111010 101110010100 1111111011100 1001101101 1111111101100 101111100110 111011011110 11011111101 10101111110 1011101111110 11001110011 11010101011 1100111011 100101111 11101011110110 1110011110110 100111111010 10111101011110 11100101010 101111101110 011110110110 111101110001 1111101110 1111011010 11010011101 1101010111 101001010 11011011100 0111011010 1010111111001 10011010110 1111111110 10011001100 1001110110 101110110111 11101111011 11101111010 11101111000 1100011110 101111111100 1011010010 1111111111011 100101110100 10101010100 11011101011 111011111001 01011111010111 1101110111 011100111010 111110111110 11100011110 110110110010 11110110011 11100101110 1011010110 111111110 11010111110 1011010011 1111111010 1001101101 1011011110110 01111111110110 111000111000 111111001100 11110111001 110111111110 100110110100 11011101011 01100011010 01101011110 1101101001010 110110101110 1111011100 10010011110 1100111001100 11100101100 1101100100110 11111011011 101100011101 101110111 111010101110 1101100111 1110110011 110101110110 1001101010 111110100111 110010011100 110111100110 110111110100 101111100 1010101111000 101000111010 11111101101110 011110110011 11111101111 111110101101 1011110101101 101011011111011 111101110100 1011011100 101101111111 101110110110 100110111011 11111001011111 11111110111 1111101011111 111110111111 1111111011110 11011111 110011 10111111111 0101011001 100101101011 1110101010110 1110101011000 111011110010 1101011111011 11111101111010 10111111110 11101011111 111011000 111110001010 10010011110 11110100100 101011011110 111110110010 10110111110 1111011001110 1101001110111 111011111110 101111111 111111011011 111010111011 111101100110 110101110 1111111010 1101011110100 1100110010 10111111010 111101101 1111101110111 1111011111110 111101110000
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 917
  • Average number of words per stanza: 169
  • Amount of lines: 332
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il, et, te, me, re, les, sur, de, la, le, une, ni, d'un, ses, d, sans, dieux, partons, parle, tait, m, toi, mon are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, souvent, et, de, au, les, partons are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, e, re, me, es, te, ve, res, pas, tre are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Le Mendiant;
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