This is an analysis of the poem Plaidoirie De Maître Sarcey that begins with:

Ma défense, messieurs les juges, sera brève.
Voici : jeudi dernier, je m’étais mis en grève,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdddXXXXcaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 77,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110101 101010111111 1111010011 111101011111 010110111110 0101111011100 110101110110 1101111010110 1101010110 11101110010 111110101 11010001101 1010010111 111001111101 1110110110100 111001111011 0101101110 11010010010 11011110110 1111110110010 1001111111110 01101011110 11111010111 110101111010 11101011111 011110111 111011110110 1110111111111 111111111111 1111010111 1111011110 101101111010 1010101111111 1011111111001 110110110111 1111111110011 11101011110 11111101100 111100011011 1111011 101111101101110 11111111101 110110101110 1111101110 111101010 11001011110 1101001111 1111101111110 11010111110 0111101111 01101111011011 1110100101010 111101011101011 11011110101 11111111111 10111111110 11111011110 1101111010 101110100011 11111110010 1101101110 1011011101101 1101011010 0111111111 111110011100 11001010111 110101111 11111011011 110111101111 1111101011101 11110111110 11110011111 110011111111 1111111011001 1011011111111 11111010111001 11011011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3694
  • Average number of words per stanza: 730
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, un, il, je, qu, est, on are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve, tonneaux, tre, somme are repeated).

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  • summary of Plaidoirie De Maître Sarcey;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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