This is an analysis of the poem La Mort De Pelloquet that begins with:

Il existait donc sous l’Empire
Un certain nommé Pelloquet,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XaXX bbbb XXbX XXXX XXXb XXXX XaXa XcXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001110 1101100 1010101 1110110 01110110 11111 1111110 110110 11100 011111 1100010 11010100 111011 11111111 110110 110111 111100 10110011 11010110 1111110 110101 1010011 11010010 1101001 11101101 10110100 1111100 11110101 1101111 1110110 1111010 111010011 11110100 1111111 11010011 11001101 1011011 111111010 11110 11101010 10100111 1100100 10111110 11110110 110111000 11110 11111101 1000101 1110110 11011100 111110 10110010 11101111 1101110 1110111 11111001 1011110 111101100 1101110 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • 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; qu is repeated.

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  • summary of La Mort De Pelloquet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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