This is an analysis of the poem L'Académie Des Gourmets that begins with:

Dieu ! quelle belle Académie
Sera celle de ces gourmets,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX Xaba XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11110 1010111 1111111 11111010 10111 11101110 1101111 110110 011111 101010100 11001001 1101011 1111100 11001010 110110 111101110 1101100 1011100 1111100 11011100 110111 101110 110111 1010100 1110111 1101100 011110101 111011110 110000111 11011101 10001010 0111000 1111110 11110111 11110111 01110100 11110100 1111101 1111110 110101 111010 100010 101111000 011101 101100110 11111110 11111110 111010 11000010 10000110 11011110 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • 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; d, est, c, de are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of L'Académie Des Gourmets;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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