This is an analysis of the poem Le Journal Comestible that begins with:
Ô rare invention où mon cœur se complaît,
S’attendrit et se pâme !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX bXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX cXXX XXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111110 1001111 110110110010 101101 1101001010010 111 10011110011 1111010 111110110001 10110 1110111 01111 011111011111 0111111 1011100110100 01111 1101100101 11011 1101001010 110 11101110100 11110 111111110 110010 101110110101 110001 11110101001 1110 101100100110 11110 1100111111 101101 111001110110 1011110 11101111100 101110 10010101111 11111 11010011001 11110 11101111100110 1110010 1011011010 10010 101101111101 11110 11011011101 10110 11011111110 11110 101111111101 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; d, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , et, que, vous are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of Le Journal Comestible;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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