This is an analysis of the poem Les Gueux that begins with:
La misère séchant ses loques sur leur dos,
Aux jours d'automne, un tas de gueux, sortis des bouges, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX XbXX aXX 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: 111110111 1110110110110 11110111111 110111110110 111111110011 1110101011010 10111110110 110011010110 111011100111 10110101010 101111101 11001110100 110100010111 101100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- 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; fouillant is repeated.
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- summary of Les Gueux;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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