This is an analysis of the poem Flatter Un Créditeur, Pour Son Terme Allonger, that begins with:

Flatter un créditeur, pour son terme allonger,
Courtiser un banquier, donner bonne espérance,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXab bXaX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10110111100 10011010110 111111011001 11111111110 11111111110 111110111 1110110110111 1111010010 1011010110 11011011011 10111101111110 11001001011 111011111001 10110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; un, ne are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Flatter Un Créditeur, Pour Son Terme Allonger,;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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