This is an analysis of the poem Le Roi De La Fève that begins with:

Je suis roi ! voici la fève !
Et je vaux deux présidents....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa bcXc dbXX XeXX aXXX aXXf XXeX abXb XXXX XXXg XaXX XgXX XXXX XXhX XXXg dhXX XXXX XfXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011 1111110 111111 11111 11110101 101110 11111100 111110 11111011 1010110 11011110 1110111 01111110 111110 1100110 111100 1111010 1001000 101101 1101110 1001111 10110 1111010 10101111 1011110 111010 1111011 1100110 10110111 1010101 1111100 11010110 11010100 10101110 11011100 1101110 110111 111111 1011101 11111 11011101 111011 1101100 1110010 11111110 101011 101110 11111010 11111101 11111110 1110110 1111000 11011110 1000101 100110 1100100 11101100 1110011 111110 101011 1111111 101111111 111111 1111110 1110110 111111 111101110 111010 111010101 1111101 111011 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; la, vous are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, vous are repeated.

    The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Le Roi De La Fève;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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