This is an analysis of the poem L'Habit D'Arlequin that begins with:

Vous connaissez ce quai nommé de la Ferraille,
Où l'on vend des oiseaux, des hommes et des fleurs....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXaXXabbXXbccXXXXddXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001110110 11111011111 0110101111110 11110011011 110101111 11000110 110111110 11010011111 11111111 1011111001 011000111111 1101111 1101001010 1010010 10010100 11010111110 11101011011 1011111110100 11101111 10011100 1110110 1110111 10010110110 11001110 1111111111 101110111011101 10010101 1101110 1101001111110 10011111 10110110101 101111101010 11111100110 100111111 1110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1435
  • Average number of words per stanza: 271
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; des, est, il are repeated.

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

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  • summary of L'Habit D'Arlequin;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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