This is an analysis of the poem Le Joli Costume that begins with:
Dans l’alcôve de ma voisine,
Un mardi gras, me réveillant,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXAABX XbXXXaAABX XXXXXaAABX XXXXbaAABX XXXXbaAABX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 1101110 1110111010 11110110 111101 11010010 11011 11011 1111001 11101111 111011110 1011001 111011011 1110100 1110111 1011001 11011 11011 1111001 11101111 111110 11110110 11011100 10100010 1110110 1011111 11011 11011 1111001 11101111 1111011 01111111 1111110 100011011 1110101 10001101 11011 11011 1111001 11101111 111101110 110101 1111110 11011110 11111 111100111 11011 11011 1111001 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ce, bien are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word oh is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bien is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word rien at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Le Joli Costume;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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