This is an analysis of the poem Les Hôtes that begins with:
- Ouvrez, les gens, ouvrez la porte,
je frappe au seuil et à l'auvent, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX aXXa XXXX bXXb XXXX XXXX XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111011 11111110 101111101 11001010 10011001 1011110 111100 10110101 101111111 11111111 111100 11011001 10111011 10111110 1100110 10111011 10111111 101111111 1101111 1110110 10111011 1011001 11011010 1111111 111011100 1100011110 1110101011 1110111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; ouvrez, entrez, la, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words entrez, qui are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
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- summary of Les Hôtes;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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