This is an analysis of the poem Cabarets Du Dimanche that begins with:

Par les déesses et les Dieux !
Est-il rien de plus odieux...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXXbbX cXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXdXX cdXXXX aXXXXX eXXebX XdXXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 01110110 11101010 11111 111100 011011 1110111 1011110 1111 11011010 11100110 1111011 111111110 1100100 111010 1110100 100100 11111101 10111110 11111100 10111110 11101010 1101110 1011110 111010010 101110 10100010 01111011 1011110 0101001 11111010 11101010 0101110 1011010 1110100 11110111 10111101 11111 0111111 111110 11101001 0110111 1101011 111011110 011101 11011010 11111010 1101000 1101110 1100100 0111010 11111010 111110110 10100110 10111100 1100001 111100100 1111110 1000111 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les, de, ont, le are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Cabarets Du Dimanche;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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