This is an analysis of the poem Le Forgeron that begins with:
Sur la route, près des labours,
Le forgeron énorme et gourd, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXb cXXXXXXX XXXXXb cX dXXddXXX dXXX XXXXX XXXXaaXXXXXX XXbXXX cXXXX XXXXXXXXXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,8,6,2,8,4,5,12,6,5,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 0100111 1011111110 1100111101110 11001110100 01111110 1000110 1101110011 10111111 1 10100100 0110010 1110 1111110 1 1110110110 1110101101 1111 1101110 10101011 1111100110 01001011 111111100 1110101 111000 111110 1110101 101101 10110010 111011111 01101 11 01011110 111011111110 1011011110 1110100 1010101010 1101101100 11101001110 1011111 1011110000 110111100 1100011100110 1111101110 1101110101 10101111011 11110100100 11111111110 0101110111 111101101000 110111111010 10101110101 11111010111 10101111101 010110101011 111101110100 1100110101 10101110101 10000101101 01001111010 111101010100 011110111110 01000010011111 01001010 11010110 101011111 1011011110 1011001 1111010 11101111 111010 11111011100 1110100100 11101111100 101101110110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; les, la, des, de, qui are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words les, la, le, qui are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, e are repeated).
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- summary of Le Forgeron;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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