This is an analysis of the poem Le Bazar that begins with:

C'est un bazar, au bout des faubourgs rouges :
Etalages toujours montants, toujours accrus,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXa XbbcXXXX XXdXXXeXXX XXeXXXXaX bXeeXXXXXXXXXb dXXXXXXXXXeX XXcXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,10,9,14,12,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111010 100010101010 10111101110 110111010 1100111 110110111 111011111 1110111100 111011100 11111011 111101 1010110001 111001101 101000110 1011111 1100110110 111111101110 11101110 101011011010 1111111000 111100101 11111101101 1101101110 11001110 1001111110 10011001 101111011 11101110 101011101111 11011111010 111111 11001110 11111100 11001110 11110111100 111110 1101110 11111 100110 1011011010 1111101 111010 101111010 11101111011 01100100 1010111100 1101100 11101010 1111110 1100011 11100110 1110111101 1011011101 1110110100 110 1111010111 11101011 101110111 11101110111 11000100 1111110 111111111 01101010 110111100 111001110110 11101011 1101111 1011101100100 11011111111 110011101101 11010001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; et, des, leurs, la, avec are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

    The author used the same word c'est 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 ants, e are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Le Bazar;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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