Poem Analysis of Pourvu Que… by Raoul Ponchon for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Pourvu Que… that begins with:

Je n’ai pas trouvé de moelle
Dans l’os qui m’échut, pourquoi ?...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX XbXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1111101 111110 1111111 100111 111101 11111110 1010010 1010110 1011100 111101 110100 0110111 1111101 1110110 111111 1110110 1011111 101111 1110011 1110110 1011101 111111 111011111 0111010 1011010 10101000 110111 111101 101111 111110 111111110 11011 1011010 00110 10111110 100100 1011101 11111011 1111111 11110
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
Average number of words per stanza: 22
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; que, de 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 pourvu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase pourvu connects the lines.

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Pourvu Que… by Raoul Ponchon: poem analysis

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