This is an analysis of the poem La Soupe À L'Oignon that begins with:
Quel est ce bruit appétissant
Qui va sans cesse bruissant ?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX XaXXXbXXXX ccXXXXXbXX aXXXXdXddX aXXXXXaXXX XXXXeXXXXf XXXdXXXXXX eeXdfXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111100 111110 11001001 111110 1100010 1101010 110111111 11111110 111111110 11110101 11110110 111111101 1110110 10101011 11110111 1101101 11110101 1011010 11110 1101011 11101101 11110011 1111 111100110 111100 1110110 11110110 10111111 10010110 1101010 101110111 1011010 1101010 1110100 11010111 0110101 1111010 11111111 111110101 11101001 11101110 110011110 1111111 1111111100 1101111 11111110 1110011 1011011 111111 1010110 1011011 11111 10101111 10111110 10111101 111010110 11111111 111110101 11111 1111111 111011100 1111011 10111111 11110111 1111110 11001111 1111011 11101110 111101110 110011 1011111 11101111 101100 1111101 1111111 1101110 1111100 101111001 111111111 10000100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; ce, pas, de, l, il, tre, en are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pas, plus are repeated).
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- summary of La Soupe À L'Oignon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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