This is an analysis of the poem La Voulzie that begins with:

S’il est un nom bien doux fait pour la poésie,
Oh ! dites, n’est-ce pas le nom de la Voulzie ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111111 11011101011 110111111011 110110101111 111010101001 111010110 0111011111 100110110110 11011111101 1111011111100 1111101110 101010101101 11001111010 11011101010 11011011101 111011110110 1111101 1011010111 11111101010 10100111111 1101110111 010011101111 101110101111 1110110010 01001101011 11100101111 0101110110 11101011010 1011111011 111111111 111110101 111111111 1011110111111 11110110011 11101011110 011111101111 11111111100 01111011111 101111011010 110100101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1942
  • Average number of words per stanza: 385
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; est, un, nom, la, ses, et, re, j, ai, d, me, tes are repeated.

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

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

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

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