This is an analysis of the poem L'Île Des Bossus that begins with:

Dans le pays des bossus,
Il faut l’être...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX abaXXcXc XXXXX dXXXXXXX XXXXX XXeXdXXd XXXXX XXXXeXeX XXXXX XXXfXXXX XXXXX XXXXfbfX XXXXX XXXXXgXg XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,5,8,5,8,5,8,5,8,5,8,5,8,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110 111 1010 111111 11110 11011011 1101001 1111101 10111011 111110 1111 1101110 1111101 101110 111 1010 111111 11110 111011 01110110 100100111 101101 11010 11111 110001 111010 101110 111 1010 111111 11110 10101110 1110110 10011001 11011100 11011 11110 011000 101001 101110 111 1010 111111 11110 1111 10110111 1111011 1111100 10101 10110 1111 11010 101110 111 1010 111111 11110 10111111 10111110 1000110 1011111 01111 110110 110110 111111 101110 111 1010 111111 11110 11100110 11111100 100110 1100100 101101 10001 11011 1111110 101110 111 1010 111111 11110 11111111 1101100 11101110 1011110 110110 100011 110011 110011 101110 111 1010 111111 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of L'Île Des Bossus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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