This is an analysis of the poem Patelin D'Été that begins with:

Si beaucoup d’or m’était compté
J’y prendrais un plaisir extrême...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXb XXXX cddc XXXX XaaX XXXX XeeX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXbX aXbX dbXd XXad XbXX
  • 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: 110111 1101101 10010111 1101001 111101010 01101101 11110011 11100011 11110111 111111 10101001 111111 11101100 10111011 11011111 110010100 1110110 111101011 1111011 1111111 01111011 11010110 11011111 011111011 1100100 110111 1111110 11100100 111111100 1111011 111110101 11011111 111010010 111111110 11010100 111111011 10110011 1101001 101101 110101 11110111 110111110 111011100 1110101 11010100 1111100 0111101 1110110 11101101 101010100 11100001 11111000 1111111 111111111 110110 110111110 1111010 11011 110111111 11001011 101011111 11001001 110111011 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • 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; loin, teau, ch, tes, et, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words j, et, les 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, ferme, tes, moi, res are repeated).

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

  • summary of Patelin D'Été;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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