This is an analysis of the poem Les Vieux Maîtres that begins with:
Dans les bouges fumeux où pendent des jambons,
Des boudins bruns, des chandelles et des vessies, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXabXXXcXcdXXXXXXXXdadXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,34,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110110 110111001110 110010110010 10100010010 100111110101 111011101110 110110111110 11101111010 10100101010 1010110110110 1101011010 0101111011010 110111111011 11110110001 11011010011 1010100110110 01100110110 101101111100 111010101010 11111110100 10110111110 1001101011010 11101111011 1111101100 101000110101 1110110101100 111011010 1101110111100 1101011100 10101010100 11001011100 1111001010 01101111011 1011001011100 1001111110 110111111100 0111110101 110011001110 11011011101 1100101101100 10110101001 1000101010100 111110100110 11111111100 110110101101 11011110010 101110110010 1011011010 1011110110 10011110010 1110111110 1011011010 10100111010 01100110100 110111101110 1110111011000 11111110111 111111101 011001101111 1110110110 111111011010 10101001011 11001111110 110000011010 1110111110010 1001001011100 10111101100 101101110110 101101110111 11111111101 11110111001 110110110110 10101011010 111010111000 101111101010 11011011100 110111110111 10010110110 1111011011 1011110111 1101011010 1110111101 1110010110 010100010101 01001111010 11110011100 101000110010 110111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2207
- Average number of words per stanza: 369
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; des, de, la, le, s, et, les, plus, un are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, et, au, un, les are repeated.
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