This is an analysis of the poem Éloge Du Mot Boire that begins with:

Le joli mot que voilà :
Boire ! Qu’en pensez-vous ? Boire !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXbX cddX XXXX XeXX XXXX XbXX XXXX fXXX XaXX gXXg XXXX XXed XXXX XXXX XXXg XXXc XXXX XXXX XXfX XbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111 111011 1111111 10111101 100110 1111111 1111101 111110110 1111011 110111 111001 10111010 1011010 111110 011110 110110 11011 0010010 11101 0110010 1001101 1001111 1110011 10111110 11000 1111010 1111101 01110 1111001 11110110 11110011 111011 11111 111110 1011111 11110 1110111 11001 101110 111010 1101010 01110 110110 0101011 111110 011010 100111 11100001 1001111 1010111 11110111 11111101 001111 01100 1111 10111011 110111 01011 1111111 1011011 101100 1110011 1111101 111010 11101100 11010111 11111010 11101110 1111101 011111 110101 100110 1110010 1101110 1100111 10100 110011 11011 100101 11001110 111011 1110010 1001110 1001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • 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; le, je are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Éloge Du Mot Boire;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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