This is an analysis of the poem La Question Du Corset that begins with:

Faut-il mettre un corset
Ou n’en faut-il point mettre ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX bXbX XcXc XXXX dcXX XXXX XXeX aXXX XXaX XXXX XaXe XXec XfXf XXad dXXX XXed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 111111 10111 110011 10010 101100 11010 10110 11110 111111 101100 111100 11010 110001 11111 101111 11111 101111 111011 11111 11101 101111 111111 11011 111111 10111 1000110 101011 110111 110100 101110 011000 1110111 1110 100110 1111 111101 10101010 111110 1101110 110111 10101 101110 110110 1010110 001111 110001 111101 111011 11111 100110 11101 110111 1110 101110 110011 1101111 11110 11010 11110 111011 1111110 111111 1110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il, des are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of La Question Du Corset;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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