Parlez-Vous Francais? by Delmore Schwartz: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Parlez-Vous Francais? that begins with:

Caesar, the amplifier voice, announces
Crime and reparation. In the barber shop...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXabbcXcXcc bdcdXaXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010101010 11101000101 1001011100 0101010101 1001010100 110101 10111101 10110101100101 10010001010 101000101 110101010 0111010101 0110101110101 111101001001 1111110101 000101000111 010011001111 11110100110 0101100011011 10110100100 1001010100011 1111110111 11011100111 1111011111 11100111110 1111011101 1101000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 577
  • Average number of words per stanza: 98
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more 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; who, and, des, il are repeated.

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