This is an analysis of the poem Le Banquier that begins with:
Sur une table chargée, où les liasses abondent,
Serré dans un fauteuil étroit, morne et branlant, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab XXXX XcXX XXXd XXXX XeXX XXXa XXXXXXXXfXXd XXXXXcXb fXXeccXXXXXXXdXXXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,12,8,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011110100 1111011110 11010111101 111101111101 011010101011 1101111100 011111110110 11111101111 111010111110 10111101101011 0111111010 01111110011 11100111101 101010110100 1110101001 1101111011 11101111110 11111010110100 1111111100 01111011010 111010111010111 10101100111 110010111101 11101111010 111011011110 11101011110 11110010110 10100111101 1111101111010 111110011 1111101011 111110111010 11111010 11101110 1110 11110110011 111111 111011 111011101110 1010100111 1011101 1111011 1110111110 1110101011 10111110 10111111 11111100 0111101 11100101110 10101010 100011110010 111101010011 1011011001 100001 111100 1010110111 100110 1111101 1101101110 101010110 1101101110 1100101110001 0110110 1101 101011111011 11101111001 01011011110 110011111100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, au, qu'il, de, ses, la, les, son, dans, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, a, l, son are repeated.
The author used the same word et 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 de is repeated).
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- summary of Le Banquier;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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