This is an analysis of the poem Il Fait Bon Voir, Paschal, Un Conclave Serré that begins with:

Il fait bon voir, Paschal, un conclave serré,
Et l'une chambre à l'autre également voisine...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba Xbba 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: 1111101111 111110001 10010011001 11101001111 11111000110 1101101101 110101111 111011101 11111011111 10010111001100 100101111110 111101101111 111101111101 11111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, par, fait are repeated.

    The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Il Fait Bon Voir, Paschal, Un Conclave Serré;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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