This is an analysis of the poem Les Paysans that begins with:
Ces hommes de labour, que Greuze affadissait
Dans les molles couleurs de paysanneries, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111000 11101001000 110111111011 011011101100 101101100101 11011010111 1011110110011 1111101110 101011100101 101101011010110 1100101111111 11111111010 111101111100 111101011 1100110110110 1101100111010 10111111101 10101010110 1111000100100 10001100110 1101101010100 1111010010110 1110110111 10011010110 10110101100 11001011110 1111001011110 110011110 1111101101100 011111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 741
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, de, sont, qu'il, faut, la are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words elle, la are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase elle connects the lines.
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- summary of Les Paysans;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Emile Verhaeren
- Analysis of Les Pêcheurs
- Analysis of Lorsque S'Épand Sur Notre Seuil La Neige Fine
- Analysis of Les Voyageurs
