This is an analysis of the poem Le Lit Clos that begins with:

D’abord cet humble lit ne me dit pas grand chose,
A parler franchement, il n’était pas trop beau...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXa XXXc XXXX XXXc XXXX XXXd XXXe XXdX XXXX XaXX XXfX XXeX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXcX XgXX XbXX XXgX XXXX XXXX XfXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXf XXXf eXXX cXfX XXXX caXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011111111 01010011111 10111110100 1101101001 111011110 11101010110 11011110101 11110011111 1011111110 1001010110 110110110110 10001111111 1011111111010 111111110011 10110011110 11110100001 111011111 11110111110 1111110011 111010110111 11100110111 101010111100 101100110010 101111111 10111011110 110101101 11110001101 01111011011 11011111110 100010111011 11011111111 110101101 10100101100110 111011111010 101111011101 11001011111110 11111011010 10111111001 110001101100 10011111011 111101110001 10001011010 1111011011 110110101 110101010 11110111 111000101101 001101101 11001110111 10111010110 110101101100 10100011101 111001111100 11111111101 111111110110 101101110010 111111011010 111011100011 10111001011 10110111110 111101011010 11010011011 11100011111 11110100100 11100111010 1101111001 101111011110 1111101110 11111010100 1111111010 1101011001 1101111110 11110101011 1111011111 1111111111101 11110111110 11100110110 111101011011010 011100110110 01110111100 11111101111110 110110111011 11011110101 111010110110 11111110110 10110111110 111011010 10011100110 0011100110110 10111011100 1011110010 100011101100 1111001110 11010110010 101100101110 0111110110 111101101110 100011010 1111101010 1101001101110 1111101101 101011001111 111110011 11110010100 10111011110111 111011100111 1011110100 11111011110 11010110010 1100111110 1101011100 11010101110 11110111110 11111111111 100110011011 111110011101 1100111101 01010110110 11001110011 11001111101 11001101111 1101101110 110011110100 1011010111 1111101111001 111100111110 11110111110011 101101111101 1101111001 1101110110 11111111100 10111110100 1010001111 1100111101 11111101101110 11101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, tant, de, s, il, et, des, le, nos, ces, leur, me, re, c, je are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tant, il, que, a are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, es, re are repeated).

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  • summary of Le Lit Clos;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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