This is an analysis of the poem Le Meunier that begins with:
Le vieux meunier du moulin noir,
On l'enterra, l'hiver, un soir ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaXX XXbXXXXX X XXXXXXcX XX XX Xb XX XXXb XXXX aAXXXdXaXXXXXX XeXd fXXfX bXbaaX XgfXXXfXX XXXX XdfXfXXXXcX X XXbXXXgXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,1,8,2,2,2,2,4,4,14,4,5,6,9,4,11,1,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011000011 11001011 01100110 1101011010 0110111 1110100 11101011 1010111 11101100 1110111 10101100 1110100 11011010100 11010100 11110 10101011 11101110 0111100 1110111110 0111010 111100 11011 101110111 11011 110111 11011 101110101 11011 101010111 111011100 11000100 111111110 1010111 010011101 1011110 1110111 1111110 111101 011000011 1010110 101011 1110100 11011101 11101001 11110111 11010 110010 110111010 101011 01111 1111110 111011001111 10101111101 11111110110 110101010110001 111011101 10111010 110011 101011100 111110 11001010 111011 11010 110011 1111 010111111 1101010 1101111 11111 101001100 11100100 111110 1000010 10110000 1111110 01001011110 101110 1010111010 111111100 1000100 10011101 11111 01101100 101101010 10010011001 100101111 1011101 1011100011 11001010 1001110 10 0101111011 011011111 1111101 110111000 10010 11100 11 11110100 1011110011
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, la, au, il, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, et are repeated.
The author used the same words le, au, les 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 ait, es, tendue are repeated).
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- summary of Le Meunier;
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- critical appreciation.
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