This is an analysis of the poem Les Tire-Bouchons that begins with:
Un jour, un vénérable abbé
— De ceux qui portent crosse et mitre ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXbX XXXX XXcX dXXX XXXX XdXd cXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 011101110 101011 1110110 1101110 0110110 11011110 0111011 10010101 110111100 11100111 1110010 1111100 1011100 11111110 1110101 11010110 1110010 101110 11101 1110101 011010 11111 101101 111001100 111111 1110111 11011101 10111100 111010 11101110 10111100 11101110 1011110 1111010 11001100 101011 101011 1111110 01101011 101101 01111 1001110 10111 11111010 1011 11110101 11111111 11101011 1101010 10101110 11110111 111111100 1111101111 11001010 10101 11111001 11111 10011100 1111111 111111110 110011000 10111010 010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tre, l are repeated.
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- summary of Les Tire-Bouchons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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