L'Invalide À La Gueule De Bois by Raoul Ponchon: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem L'Invalide À La Gueule De Bois that begins with:

Tous les matins, d’un ton impératif,
La Soif me dit : « Viens, mon petit bonhomme,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XXXX bXbc dXXX eXXb cdXf fefX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011100 1111111010 11011100 11111111111 1111101 110111011 1111101111 10010110 111110100 1111011110 11111111 01111100 1100111010 111111011 01101111011 111101110 1100111001 110111111 1010111100 01010111010 1110101111 11001111 111011101 11000101111 111111001010 010110111 101011100 11011101111 11101111101 1111111001 10101110111 11101111111 1101110 111011110110 11110110101 1110110110 1111110 10110111000 111101100 111101101 01111111110 11000111 101011110 111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; t, ou, l, il, que, je, est are repeated.

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  • summary of L'Invalide À La Gueule De Bois;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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