This is an analysis of the poem Les Deux La Fayette that begins with:

Le soldat
Bons villageois, quel est le maître...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXbXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXXX X XXXXXXXXcX X XcXXXXXXaX X XaXXXXXdbdXaXXXXeXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 110010101 0111011 0100 111 010 1111 01111011 0100 1111011 1101010 111101100 11011111 1 010 111111 11111100 1111101 1011111 0100 111110 010110011 1111010 1111010 1 010 110110 111101 10101010 10110010 0100 1101010 1111010 1001110 11101101 1 010 01110011 1110100 10111110 01111010 0100 11100110 10110111 01001111 101101110 1 010 11011001 10010111 1101110 10010110 0100 0111011 101100010 111111 100111110 010 1111111 1010011110 101111110 1111100 1100110 1101101 11010011 10111110 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; le, c, est are repeated.

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

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

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