This is an analysis of the poem Stercoraires that begins with:
À la face du ciel, chez les peuples du Gange,
Toutes les saletés des villes sans égout...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111001 1011011011 1111011010 1010111001 110101010 111011101100 1011000111010 100111100 1010101001100 100101111011 110100111010 1001101100100 11001011110 1101101111000 110101011000 101101101 11001010010 101011111001 11101011110 11001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 100
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, des, les, le are repeated.
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- summary of Stercoraires;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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