This is an analysis of the poem L'Avare Et Son Fils that begins with:

Par je ne sais quelle aventure,
Un avare, un beau jour, voulant se bien traiter,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111100 1101111011110 1110100 11011100 11101110 11010100 101101011010 1111100 1100111 111010 110011010001 11001110 11110010111 1011110011 1101111111 10011010010 1110100110110 11001010 10011110 01010100 11011101111 11111111 11101101111 11010100 11111011 1101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 976
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, vous are repeated.

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

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