This is an analysis of the poem Dégustations that begins with:

C’était à l’Exposition,
Rayon des dégustations,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX aXXbbX cXXXXX dXeXfe XgXcXX XgXhXX cXfffX XXXggX XfXXXX XXXXXX ddXXXg bbXhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000 101100 111010010 11101110 11001101 1101111 111101 1111110 101011 110111 1101101 11100111 10111110 111111111 11010001 1111110 11111110 1101111 1011010 11011110 11010100 1101110 111110111 1111111110 111111110 111110111 1111110 10001101 111011101 1010101 110111010 111011 101011 11101011 111101011 11100111 11111010 1111000 1101101 1111001 1011111111 11111111 1111110 101001010 110100111 101011 111011 10110111 110100 1110010 11101100 1011110 1111100 1011101 1110111 11110110 11110111 11111100 11001011 110111011 1010111110 10111110 111110011 11010010 10111000 11011011 11110101 1001101 110010110 11110111 10111100 1100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • 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; j, un, le, mon, nous are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines moi, pas are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Dégustations;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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