This is an analysis of the poem Les Cordiers that begins with:

Dans son village, au pied des digues,
Qui l'entourent de leurs fatigues ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XAbXXaXX cXaXXdXX bbXXXXA XcXXXc XXXX XaaX XXXb XXXX XXXXXA XcXXX XdXX XXXX cXXc XXXX XXXXXA XcXXXX XXXX XXcX cbXc XXXX XbXX XAXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,7,6,4,4,4,4,6,5,4,4,4,4,6,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011110 11000101 0101010111 01100100 01001010 1010101011 01100110 101100100 11111001101111 110001111 10011101111 11000111 110011 011111 110110110 1000101111100 101101111011 10110010011 1110111010 11111110 01100100 01011000 010101010 10101111 0110101 10101001 10101100 10110 1110101 10111101100 010110111100 1110111101 11111111100 10111110 1000111110 1010011110 1110011001 1011110100 1110111110 1011110001 10101111001 1011110110 1111011010 1010101001100 101101111110 10110111010 101011111 11111110 01100100 01011000 010101010 10101111 01101001 10101110 10111001 1011111 101110011111 11101011101 1001111001 11101011010 101111111 10110110111000 1110110100 11111111001 101110111001 1111111110 1111010110010 101011011110 101101011010 11111111001 111010100101 100010111100 1111110 1111110 1111110111110 01100100 01011000 010101010 10101111 111001 10101011110 1100100 111110 1100111110 1110111011000 110100101111 011010010011 1010111001 11111111100 01101101011 11010110110 110011110100 11101111100 111100111101 1110011101110 111111001010 1101101110111 101111111011 1111110110 1011011101 1111101110110 0101011101 110010111010 111011110100 111011110 11000101 100111010000 01100100 11111110 101101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, la, et, des, le, que, se are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dans is repeated.

    The author used the same words jadis, voici, l 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 talons, ant, re are repeated).

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  • summary of Les Cordiers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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