Poem Analysis of Poubelles Dans Le Bois by Raoul Ponchon for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Poubelles Dans Le Bois that begins with:

C’est cela. Compte sur tes boîtes,
Mon ami, pour sauver le Bois....

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX bcbX XXXd XXXd XXXX bcbX XXXX XXXX XXXa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11011110 11011001 10101100 1101011 110111 11111100 11000010 11000100 1001110 101111 11110010 11101011 1111011 11110111 11110 0101110 1110101 1111110 10100001 1111110 110111100 110100 100101010 10111101 100101100 1100010 11000110 11101110 11111110 11101011 1111011 110111 1101110 11111011 1101010 1100110 11111100 10110010 01001011 101101110 110001100 1101010 111101100 11100110 11011111 100110 110011 1011110
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 48
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; de, et, tu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
The author used the same word ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Poubelles Dans Le Bois by Raoul Ponchon: poem analysis

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