This is an analysis of the poem Le Château De Cartes that begins with:

Un bon mari, sa femme et deux jolis enfants
Coulaient en paix leurs jours dans le simple ermitage...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXaXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011111010 1011111010100 11001110110 1110011101 100110100110 10111101010 11010110 1111110110 1100101010010 0111110110 111110 101101110 1011011 00111110100 10110111110101 1110101011 101110110011 11010001110 101111101110 10011110110 011001111 1101010 11100110001 1110010 110011011110 10101011100 11010010 11111101 0110111 1110101010 11001101100 0101101 1110110111100 111111111110 1100110 11111001 0100111 11101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1627
  • Average number of words per stanza: 297
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; leurs, ' are repeated.

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

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

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

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