This is an analysis of the poem Le Propriétaire that begins with:
Né dans quelque trou malsain
D’Auvergne ou du Limousin,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XXXXbX ccXaaX XbXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 1010100 111011 101111 10101 0100 1111111 11110 010111 1101110 111101 1100 1011011 1111010 11101 11111110 11010100 0100 111010 1011111 1011010 1100010 11111 0100 1101010 1100100 1011111 1101011 110111 0100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word d is repeated.
The author used the same word d at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines but is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word taire at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Le Propriétaire;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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More information about poems by Charles Cros
- Analysis of Sonnet (Je Ne Vous Ferai Pas De Vers)
- Analysis of Sonnet (La Robe De Laine)
- Analysis of Sonnet (Moi, Je Vis La Vie À Côté)
