This is an analysis of the poem Le Poëte En Province that begins with:

Le moi présomptueux de Montaigne et de Sterne
Est mal reçu, venant d’un auteur subalterne ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbccdXaXXXeXaaXXXXXXaXXXXfXXcXXghXXhXX XgXXXaXbXXXXXXXX XXaXhXXheeXXXXXXX XXXXXXfXXXXXXXXXX XXXgXdiXcXXXXjXXXaiiXXXhXhXXXXjXXXXgXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,16,17,17,42,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0110010101 011110110100 111011111 111110111011 1111110110011 11101110 1110101111111 1111111100 1101011101 11100110110 111111101111100 111110111 111101100 110111011100 111110011111 1010110001 110101110 1111111 11111111100 100111010110 1110101010 1111111011 1111010111 1100101110 10101011100 1101100100 10110111010 1011111 11111101011100 010011111100 11110111111010 1111101101110 1111101111010 11010111101 111001111101 01011100110 10011110011 111010111011 011001100110 11101011011 11101001010 10111111001111 10111011110 110010111110 1110101001 110101110001 10100111010 10001110111 101011011 10000111011 110001001101 110110100111 10111101000 1101001001100 101100110010 110101110 0111001101 11111111100 111111011001 110011110100 110011110 1111001010 110011010 10011011100 11001011111 10110110011 1110101110 11011100110 11000111100 101001110 110011110110 1111011110 110101010100 11110110100 101110110011 11110110010 1111101011 111110110011 1110011010 110011010001 1011011101 110101100110 10101110110 1111110100 1110101001100 001010111011 11110110110 11011111110 111111101110 11111111110 1111011110 10100111010 11010111100 01110111111 10101101110 11100111111 1111110111111 1110001111110 111101111111 11111111110 1110010111 10010111001 11001001 1111101101001 11100011100 111111111000 11111001111110 10110111011 101010111110 100110100111 11100101101 1111111111110 10111110 1100011111 10110111 11010111111 111111111110 11001111100 1111101111010 111111101110 111111111011 11101110110 11011011110 011110011101 1011111001 11011011111111 10110011100 11100101100 100001111 11100010111 111011100 10111001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1221
  • Average number of words per stanza: 235
  • Amount of lines: 132
  • 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, des, honneur, je, et, vous, d, un, l, la, ne, pas, qu, importe, ma, le are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, savez, l are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, me, tes, miques are repeated).

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  • summary of Le Poëte En Province;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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