This is an analysis of the poem Le Premier Moutardier Du Pape that begins with:
Un Dijonnais jadis fut pape,
Dont le nom, pour l’instant m’échappe....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXbbX XXXXXX XXXccX ddXXaX eXXXfX XXXXXX XXXXXX eXXXfX XXXdXX XbXXXX
- 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: 11001011 1011101 101011 1100101 1101111 11100 11110 1111101 110010 11100100 11001100 110100 101111 1111110 101111010 10011111 11111110 110111100 1100110 10110011 11011110 11101111 11001011 11011100 11101011 1110111 10110110 1010101 10111001 101111 1111011 1111111 110111 1100010 01101111 11011100 1011110 110111 10111101 1111111111 010111000 10110110 1001110 101111000 101100 101111 1011010 11001100 1111011 1011011 1001100 11100110 101110111 11111110 110111100 1100110 1111001 111111111 1110010 11101100 111100 1110111 1011001 10101100 10100100 10001100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 66
- 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; de, l, un, que are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, aise, re, me are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Le Premier Moutardier Du Pape;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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