This is an analysis of the poem Five O'Clock Absinthe that begins with:

Vous avez votre absinthe. Il s’agit de la faire.
Ce n’est pas, croyez-moi,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX cXcX XXXX XXXX XdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110110011 111101 1111110110 10111 111111010110 011100 10011001111 1110 111111100110 11111110 101011100101 110 110111110010 101100 1010111011 111110 101101101 111100 111010100101 10100 11111011011 101011 10011110101 11010 111111100 11101 110100100111 11110110 11011011100 11110 101111111010 101101 11101101011 11101 1101101111 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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 Five O'Clock Absinthe;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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