This is an analysis of the poem Un Amateur D'Alcool that begins with:

Vous ne connaissez pas la salle Dupuytren ?…
Je vous en félicite,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXbX XXXX XXcX XXdc XXXX XXXX XXXX eXeX eXbX XcXc XdXX ecXc XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXXX dXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100111100 111110 111001111010 110110 11101010111 111111 111111001110 100110 11111100010 11110 10011011110 11110 110011110 1001000 11010110011 1011000 111010101000 111 111100110110 11101 1001111110 1000100 10011101000 1111110 11111101111 11111111 1101110101 101101 110111010 011110 10011011100 011010 10110111100 101011 111011011011 10110 100100011101 1101100 1101110110 11100 101101101110 1111011 111111110110 10110 110110110100 100101 10011110100 111100 1111111110 10111 1111101101 101111 110010110100 11110 11110101100 011001 1111101110010 110111 111110111011 110110 11110100110 11111 110110101010 0110100 110011101110 1111 11110101101 111001 1111111001 1101011 111100110110 10011 11110110011 100010 111011111110 11011 101110110101 101110 111011010111 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, il are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words au, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word c at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Un Amateur D'Alcool;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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