This is an analysis of the poem Impôt Sur Le Tabac that begins with:
Ce bonhomme ne défumait
De toute la sainte journée ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXbXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbaaXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 01111 11011101 10110 1111100 1110011 1110010 100001101 11011101 0101110 1110111 1111110 11011110 01111000 101111100 111100100 11110011 110110 1111110 1011111 1110110 101111 10111010 1011100 1101111 0101111 11111010 1101001 10011100 10101001 111011 11111100 101101 11101011 11110110 111111101 11110111 11111011 1110101 1101101 110101 111010 1110100 011011 1101011 1110011 1100111 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1481
- Average number of words per stanza: 286
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; l, vous are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines t is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Impôt Sur Le Tabac;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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