This is an analysis of the poem Cuisson Du Pain that begins with:

Les servantes faisaient le pain pour les dimanches,
Avec le meilleur lait, avec le meilleur grain,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX aXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1100100111100 100101100101 01101111110 1111011011 111111101001 1110111001 11110100111 11101111111 0111110011010 11110111110 101011100111 111011101010 111111011 10110011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; le, les, leurs, la are repeated.

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  • summary of Cuisson Du Pain;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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