This is an analysis of the poem Le Café that begins with:

Il est une liqueur, au poëte plus chère,
Qui manquait à Virgile, et qu'adorait Voltaire ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011111 110101100001 1110111001 110111001 10110101111 101011111110 11101101 110111110 1011111011 0101101101 111111001101 1111010101110 10110111111 011101101 11110100110 11110011100 10010110001 1011011011 1111001100 101110100100 101101011110 111101101110 11101011011 111111011010011 01110110100 1001101101 1111110110 11011010011 1111101 111110010 1111011001 1111110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1466
  • Average number of words per stanza: 277
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; e is repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Le Café;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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