This is an analysis of the poem Le Marché De La Madeleine that begins with:
Debout ! le soleil caresse nos draps.
Que ne suis-je né près de Mytilène !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXA XXXX XXbX XbaX XXXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100011011 11111111010 101001011 111011101 11111111 11111100 11111110 100011011 110001110 11011111 111111111 11111111010 1111110100 1111101010 11011011 101001011 11110111110 1010001100 011001110 111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ne, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nous is repeated.
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- summary of Le Marché De La Madeleine;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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