This is an analysis of the poem Menuet that begins with:
Marquise, vous souvenez-vous
Du menuet que nous dansâmes ?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011001 0101110 11101011 1100111 11000100 01110110 1110110 111110100 101100 111111100 111110 1111100 1100111 1101101 11111 11010101 11110 101011 0110110 0111011 1101010 0110110 01011110 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; la is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word dans is repeated.
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- summary of Menuet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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