This is an analysis of the poem Cochons De Bois that begins with:

Je ne me suis amusé guère
À cette foire de Neuilly....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX bXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XdbX eXXX XXXX XcaX Xfff XXeX XXXX XXXg fXeX XXXX XXXX XXXd XgXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111101 11010 10111011 10101010 1110011 1011111100 110011000 1111110 1010011 11101110 1111101110 11101000 11010010 111111010 11010100 111011100 1101111 1001000 10100101 1100010 1010011 11101001 111011 11101011 1011100 01100110 1011101 0111101 11110101 1101110 1111110 01111100 11001010 110101110 10110010 11110010 1010111 11101001 101010110 11011111 1101111 10100111 101001111 110010 10110110 1111110 01010111 11010010 111111 11010111 111100 101010 1110010 11100110 10110011 111110001 01010001 11101 1101011 11111111 11101110 11110010 1110101 1111001 1101110 111110001 110110 01011101 11111011 11110111 11011010 1111100 1110111 1101101 11011111 10100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • 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; est, m, de, nos, le, plus are repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase elle connects the lines.

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  • summary of Cochons De Bois;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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