This is an analysis of the poem Le Roi Du Souper that begins with:

Grave en habit luisant, un grand nègre courbé,
Va, vient de tous côtés à pas vifs d'estafette:...

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: 1110101111 1101111100 0111110110 010110100101 010101011 111111111 11010111111 11001111101 1011111111 0101101101110 11111111011 110010111110 10011011110 11111110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la is repeated.

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  • summary of Le Roi Du Souper;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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