This is an analysis of the poem Vers De Noël that begins with:

Au diable la poésie,
Mon ami Ponchon,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX bXXc XXXc XXXc XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXdX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa eXXX XdXX cdXd XfXf XXbX ecXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 11010 10101 0110 011111 1110 111111 11110 11110111 11110 111010 010011 101110 11110 1001100 11001 011111 11110 110010 10110 101111 10010 100101 10010 0011010 1110 1110110 10100 11001000 0101 101101100 10110 1011110 11011 1111010 11110 11110 1111 1011010 1101 11110 1100 10111110 11010 1101010 10011 01011101 10101 1101 111 1111111 1110 11110 10000 1110011 10110 11001010 10100 10010110 11010 110100 10011 1110100 1111 1101001 1011 1010110 1110 101110110 1111 1101100 11101 011101 111111 1100110 11011 11111111 11110 1101101 111110 11011111 0110 110110 1010 11111111 0111 1111111 10100
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 96
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; et, ils are repeated.

    The author used the same word les 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 voil connects the lines.

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  • summary of Vers De Noël;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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