This is an analysis of the poem Le Bon Dieu Et Le Cocu that begins with:
Or, une fois mort, un compère
Digne du séjour des maudits,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXcb XXXX XXdX ceXX XXXa XXfX XXcX fXXd XXcX XXXX XeXe XXXX XXXX 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: 111111 101110 11010110 110010 1010101 1110101010 11111101 111111111 11111 110111010 10111011 11011 111011 11111 1110011 11010101010 1101111111 10101101 111011010 11011101 11111 10111 111101 111110110 1010111 1101010 0101010111 10111110 10110010 11111000 1101111111 1101100 11001111 10010110 11111 1011111 11111 11000100 11110101 10101110 110111010 110111101 11101010 1011101 11011010 110101101 11100111 11111101 101011010 1110001 11111011 11111010 0111110 111010110 111011000 1111011 100111110 11111110 111100110 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il, y, le, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, et are repeated.
The author used the same words il, et at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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