This is an analysis of the poem La Coupe that begins with:
Dans les verres épais du cabaret brutal,
Le vin bleu coule à flots et sans trêve à la ronde ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11101010110 0111111111 111001110010 1111111010 10111011100 01110111110 111101111 11011010101 1010110011010 111101100010 111100111001 110111110011 111111101 1010101111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, plus, de are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).
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- summary of La Coupe;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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