This is an analysis of the poem Le Ménétrier that begins with:
Soir de juillet torride et sec.
Serrant le bois sonore au creux de son épaule, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bbcXcX XXXcXbd XeXXXX edXXaX fXXf XXXXfXbXccXXfXXXgXgXX XXXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,7,6,6,4,21,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101011 10011011011 11010 110010111111 11110111111 1011011110011 11101111 1101111011 11101100011 01010110 11101110 111110 110111010 011101 10111110 1111 11101011011 10110 1111 111110011111 1111110 11101100 1011011111 10111 0101011 1101111011 111010111010 1101 11 101110111 11100110100 111111111 11110111101 101110011 110101110100 10011110010 11101110111 11110110111 10001111110 111111011100 001010110100 101110101101 11001111011 10101011110 11011101110 1101010011 11001100110 1101111011 1100101111 11011111111 1001111100 111101100111 10111011 100010100 0111110100 1111101111001 1101110011 11101011110 10101011001011 100100011 1111111101010 11101100101 1000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; de, les, et, le 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 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 pas, faux, re are repeated).
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- summary of Le Ménétrier;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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