This is an analysis of the poem Le Gigot that begins with:
Quand le gigot paraît au milieu de la table,
Fleurant l’ail, et couché sur un lit respectable...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXb XXXccX XXdXXX eeXbeX dXXXfb XXXgfX XXheXh XXXXXd gXXXeb eeXXXX XXiiXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101010110 101111110100 010100 11111011111 11101011010 10110 1101111111 11100110011 01010 1011101101 110111101011 1101 1010001010 111010111010 101111 111101110010 1101110101001 11110 110111010110 110110001101110 01100 1100111101 1001111 10111100 1111110111 111011111 111110 0101101111 11111101101 11110 1100101011 1111001110 11011 011101100010 1010011011 101100 10011110100 11010111100 111110 010100111010 101011101110 101010 111001010 01001111100 111111 110111111 1011111111111 1110111 11011011110 1111010111111 10110 11101111 1010101011 110111 1110011001 1110011111 100110 11111111 11111100011 11101 10111111100 1100001110 11011 110111110101 1110101110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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, le, l, un, du, de, les are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, roses, e, me, es are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Le Gigot;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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