This is an analysis of the poem Le Donneur De Mauvais Conseils that begins with:

Par les chemins bordés de pueils
Rôde en maraude...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXXXXaXXX XbX XXXXXXXXX XaXXXXXc XXXXXXXX XXXXXXbXXXX XXbXXXXXXc XXXXXXdXXXX XdXXeXX XXfXXfXXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,9,3,9,8,8,11,10,11,7,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 1110 01001010 11101110 110011111 11111110 11001101 0101110 111101 11101 0101101 11110111 01001010 011001010 0111001 10101000111 1011110 111111 1110011100 10110111 10001110 10110 11011 1011111 11001110 10101101 1011001 1110110 1110100 1110110 11111010010 1110111101 0110111 11011101 111110110 1110111011 110101110110 110101101 110110010 0111111 11111110 10011111 1011111 11011100 11011101 0110110 1101110111 10111110 11111110 11100110 1100 11101110 101110100 1100101 111101 111011010 0101011 11011011 0101010110 110011101 1011101 10101010001 11001111100 11010110010 11011 101010111 111011100 010101 110111 100110 11011110100 0110110 1110111 11010111 10011010 110101 11101111 11011100 111101101 101110111 1100101 11011011 01101110 0110110 11001100 101110 10111011 110010010 11001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 89
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, le, des, la, et, les, ses, avec, sa are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, avec, o, le are repeated.

    The author used the same word il 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 re, s are repeated).

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  • summary of Le Donneur De Mauvais Conseils;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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