This is an analysis of the poem Le Vigneron Champenois that begins with:

Le régiment arrive
Le village est presque endormi dans la lumière parfumée...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXX XXXXXX XaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,6,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001 010011100111010 1100111 110100011111100 1101110111 0110 11111101100110 0110100100010110 110010111100011 1010111101 11100101110110100 1101111 1100101111 110011110100 1100111011111010 11001111011 11001001011100 11000111111 111011011 11001110010 10010110100 11111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; le, vigneron, un are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, un are repeated.

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

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