This is an analysis of the poem Diogène that begins with:

Du fond de son tonneau, tribune populaire,
Il exhalait sans peur sa maligne colère ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,76,10,10,16,12,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011010100 1100111101 110110101010 01011100110 1101111100 1101101111 110001110011 11111110111 11110111110 110011110010 1011011010 1101101100111 110100111000 11111101111000 101001111 1010111010 10111010101 11100111000 110111010 111011111101 1110101110 1111000101 011110011111 11011011010 1110010011 0101001001 111100010110 1101110101 1111111101 111010111000 110010100 11111111100 11110011101 11111001010 111010111111111 100111010 110101111101 10010011101 111101010110 11011010110 100100111 1011100110 11110110110 01011111010 1001101111 10110111110 11110101010 111101101 11110100011 11101010111 10010110110 01100110100 110101111110 1010111100110 11010101110 111001110010 1110111110 1011100100011 1110110111110 111010001 10011110100 1110111100 110010100011 11011111101 110111100 111111100 11100010111 01001011110 11010101110 11010111010 11111010110 11101010101 1011010110 11110110010 11110011010 01010011110 1111011011 11111111111 111001011101 01010101011 11101011101 1001011111 11101010010 111101101111 11000101111 1110111110 1011111110 11011011011 110011111011 11010111101011 1111101100 100010111100 10111101 111010100 101111011 111101011110 111010111100 010100101110 11101101110 11110001111 10111110001 11100101110 1010001110 1101011010 101011101 1011011001 111101110 10010110110 1101011110 1110111110 11110111111 1101111111 11100010100 111011011 11100111011 11110111010 111111101 1110111011 11101110110 1110110010 11011110010 1001111101 111000100110 1101101110 1101101111100 111001110 111000101101 1110001010111 11110101101 111110111 111111011010 110010101101 1110110100 11011111110 1101111010 101010100010 11101111110 11111011011 11110100100 01110111010 10011010101 11010011101 111011110 11011110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 944
  • Average number of words per stanza: 180
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • 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; de, s, m, n, le, sur, des, les, mon, du, l are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ne, tre, ves, s, te, ance are repeated).

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  • summary of Diogène;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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