This is an analysis of the poem Poète Et Laboureur that begins with:

Un poète, le nez au vent,
Musait par la campagne,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXXb aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXbX
  • 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 101110 10011 01110 1011011 1111 10111111 1011 1101011 1011 1101100 1011 1101110 10110 1110111 110011 1110110 11001 11011100 11011 11100010 1110100 1101110 111100 11011110 111110 10011010 1101 11110011 100111 0111001 11111 1111100 11111 11111100 1111 111110110 110111 10101011 1101100 111110 01011 1011110 11001 1101110 1011100 111101110 1111000 1111101 101100 11111010 101100 110111 10110 11111010 111011 111111110 111111 11010010 11111 1011111 11110 11111011 011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, et, les are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

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  • summary of Poète Et Laboureur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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