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

Le menuisier du vieux savoir
Fait des cercles et des carrés, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX Xabc XXXXcX XXdX XXXX XXXXeX XbeXXX aXXX eXa XXd XXXXXX XXXX XaXX aXXX XXXX XXXX dXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,6,4,4,6,6,4,3,3,6,4,4,4,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000110 1110111 1000110 1011100 11010000110 111111101 0110110111 11011110 11101110 10111101 0100101100 110111 101110110 110111100 10111101 111 110110 11101111010 110110110 0111110 10110100 10110101 11110111 100011 1010100 111010000 11101111001 101111 1111110 01001100 1011101 1110101 10001111110 1110100 0101100010 11011101 1101100 11111010 111010000 11111100 11011100 0111000 1101110 11011 10111100 11101011 1010111000 101010100 111110100 111101 010101000 11110 01000110 011010 11001110101000 1011110010000 1100111 1001011 111100 111001000 111110010 1110111 110110 11011101 1101101101 1011101 1111100 0110110 10111 1101 110010 1101110 11101101111 110011100 11101011 011010101 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • 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; et, de, des, le are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words il, ses at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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