This is an analysis of the poem Le Premier Jour De L'An that begins with:

Souffrez, mes chers amis, qu’une épître nouvelle
Soit de mes vœux pour vous l’interprète fidèle,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb ccdXXXXXXX eXXXXXXX bXXXXXXXXXXXXfbXXdXXdXXXXXXXfXgXXXXhbbXXXXXa XhXXXXXXXiaX XXXXXXXdXXfXdX bbXXhXXXXXXXbXXf XXXXXbdXddddXXXXdX XXXXbXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXdXXfXXXfXXXXXXXg eXXXXXXX XXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXf aXhhhXhhgXXXiXXXXXXdXbXXbXXdXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,10,8,44,12,14,16,18,12,26,8,20,32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101111 101111101 11100100100 010111111101 1111110111101 100111111001 101010111110 1011011011 1101110111010 11001011011 110110101100 1110101100110 100111101110 1111001101000 1011011111 11110010101 110111111 10111110 101011010 1100111110010 101110111100 1010010110 0111101111 10010110010 11101001100 1110101111 110111101010 101010110 1111101101 1010011010 111001111110 1110111010 11010011011100 1100111111000 111010101 10010011001 111001011010 1011101101100 001010101011 110001111110 1111100101 10001001101 101010101010 1001011111 11101010110 11000111010 01110101100 1010111110010 1101000111 111001011 1110011 10010001100 11101111111 1111011100 1111100011 11010110110 1101011010 1001011001 110110100111 10111111111 110011010 1001011110 101110011110 110110111110 1111111011 1100101110010 110101111111 1101011010 111111111100 10110110110 01111011 11111111011011 1100011100100 01101111100 111110111011 011110111001 110111101101 1011110110 1111111111110 11010001000 11010000110 1101111100 11011111101 1001011001 101010101100 11110101011 101100100100 11101110110 110001111101 1110110110 11101110110 11111111010 1101011111010 1001101101100 11101101101 11110011111 10111001111 110101101 1110010101 11100110011 11011110110 011111011111 10010111010 110100111000 110001101100 110100110010 011010100100 101111111100 110011110 111010011 011000110100 1111011100 11001111110 11101111011 1110001111011 11111100110110 11001110110 10111111011 10111010110 11011100110 11111111111111 111100111110 11101111100 1111001111100 111011110 1011100100110 101100111010 1101011100 111001101 10010011111 11100011110 111111011000 1100100100101 1010101101 1011001010 11111111100 1101100100110 11101101110 1001101111 11001011110 1111101101 101111101011 111101110100 010001110110 10111101101 10101110110 11100111010 111010101100 1101101011 10110111111 1110011010 10111011111 110110111110 1000101110 110100011000 110010101100 111010110100 1111010010101 1110010100010 01110100110 10010110110 11001010010 1011011110 011000100001 101110100101 11101011100 10011101100 100110100110 10101001100100 10101010100 110010100110 1101101010 1111011000110 1111000100100 10101111110 01100101010 110110010101 111110101100 111111101010 11100110010 111010110111 111011011011 11110010110 010011110111 110101111110 111100111100 11011001100 011110111110 110101111110 110110111011 0100101101110 111000011011 111010101101 011111111110 1110111010 101111010 111110111001 1111111101 1101011011110 100110110101 1111011111 1101011111 111100100110 1111011111011 011110111111 11111111111 11110011010 0111010100 101100100 010100110010 1111101100 01010101111 101101101100 1101101101 101110110110 101101110 1011101001010 111111101100 111010010 11111110011 10111110100 1111010100 01101010111 101100111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 800
  • Average number of words per stanza: 153
  • Amount of lines: 224
  • 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; le, et, les, l, de, re, des, nous, que, ces, ni, leur, je, d, si, par, est, vous, vos, heureux, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ces, si, nous are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, re, pas, cher, res, veille are repeated).

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  • summary of Le Premier Jour De L'An;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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