This is an analysis of the poem Le Coin Du Feu that begins with:

Suis-je seul ? je me plais encore au coin du feu.
De nourrir mon brasier mes mains se font un jeu ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXcXXXXaXXcXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,31,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111111101 0101101111111 10110101100 10001100110 111101011 111001110111 11111110010 10110110100 1110011100 110001110100 111101011010 111011111011 11010110100 1011110011 100111001111 01110100011 11110111010 1111111101111 11101111110 11110011100 1101011010 11011011010 11011110 10111101110 111001111010 11001001100 101011010100 11101011001 1111101110 11110010101 01010011010 1101011101 01101011110 11101011010 1111111011 101111111100 11110101100 101010101010 11110011011 1111111111111 11111011100 1110110001100 110001110010 111010111110 1100101111 1111110110100 01111111110 1010101111011 111011101 1011010111 110111100 1011110110 10111011101 11111110111 1011111011 11111001001 1011010 101011101111 11110011010 11010101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1412
  • Average number of words per stanza: 255
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; mon, t, de, il, ses, je, en, et are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines res, troit are repeated).

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  • summary of Le Coin Du Feu;
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