This is an analysis of the poem Magny, Je Ne Puis Voir Un Prodigue D'Honneur, that begins with:

Magny, je ne puis voir un prodigue d'honneur,
Qui trouve tout bien fait, qui de tout s'émerveille, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX 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: 1011111111010 1111110110 11101011110 111111110 111111011100 10111011010 1111100111010 11011001110 10111111 110101111011111 110110110111 101111111011 101011111001 11101101111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; qui, me, d are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Magny, Je Ne Puis Voir Un Prodigue D'Honneur,;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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