This is an analysis of the poem Les Rois that begins with:
C'est une troupe de gamins
Qui porte la virevoltante étoile ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXXaXX XaXXXBXX XXXXXBXX XXXXXBXX XXXXXaXXXXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,8,8,8,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 11110001 01 11111 0111 1011 10011111 01011011 11111111 11111111 11101011 11 11110 0111 1100111 110111011 10011001 10011110 1110111 10010 101 1010111100 111011111 110111011 10110010 1011101 11101111 10010 101 1010101011 1110111111 110111011 101010010 1011110 11101111 10010 101 101011001 111001101 1101110010 111110 11011000 11011001 110111 110011 1101 1100 1010111 1101101 11011101111 111100101011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; et, par, de, leurs, avec are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, les are repeated.
The author used the same word ' 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 toile is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ' connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Les Rois;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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