This is an analysis of the poem Le Lait that begins with:
Dans la cave très basse et très étroite, auprès
Du soupirail prenant le jour au Nord, les jarres ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- 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: 111111111 0100100111110 1011100011101 111010011001 11111101111 1010101111 1111111001 101011101011 1101111110 111110101100 111010111001 1111100101111 10110010101 11101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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; s, les, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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- summary of Le Lait;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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