Vous Êtes Dans Le Vrai, Canotiers, Calicots by François Coppée: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Vous Êtes Dans Le Vrai, Canotiers, Calicots that begins with:

Vous êtes dans le vrai, canotiers, calicots!
Pour voir des boutons d'or et des coquelicots,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101100100 111101111000 1100101100110 0100100110100 111101111 11010011011 1101111110 110111111001 110110110010 100110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 463
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, et, la, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vous is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cour is repeated).

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