This is an analysis of the poem Chanson (La Muse Gaillarde) that begins with:
Si j’étais roi de quelque endroit,
Tout mon peuple serait ivrogne,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110 1111010 111100110 11110011 10110010 1110000 010100 0101111 11001010 1111010 1010011 111011 1010110 10010101 1100110 1100100 1111100111 101010 10101010 11100101 1011110 1101111111 110011 10110010 11110010 11111011 11111111 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; de is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
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- summary of Chanson (La Muse Gaillarde);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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