This is an analysis of the poem Madam La Maquise that begins with:
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa:
"I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: "Ha! Ha!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXccXXdXeX fXeXXXaXdXXXgggX ffdXbbaXaXbX ccbXeXaagggX ggffhheXgXeX ffiihhgXaahhgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,16,12,12,12,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100110100110 101010111001111011 111101101110001 1101011011101010 0110110010001 10111110111111000 110110101111101 1111111110101 11011111011001 1011010011011100 10111001111010101 111101011010110 10101101001010011 010111110100010 11011111110011 10110001110101100 01000101100101 1110111010100010 10111001011010101 111111011111010 011110001010011 110101010100010 10110101100110101 101010111111010 0111100111101110 01000111111110 010111011101010 111111111101010 110101011111110 1111110010101100 11010101110101 11000101100011 11010101000101 011101110111110 100001101111001 11110101010011 110101010100001 111101011101110 101010011110101010 1101111001110100 10101001011010111 011110110100110 0110110010101 110111001001101 11110111010111 111101010100110 1101111110101 1001111011001010 011110101110111 11110101110001 01101010101010 110101011111010 110101110101110 1101101101110100 011101011101010 1111001010111010 01001101101110 0101010000101110 010110010101110 110111011101010 1011111011101011 1111111111110110 10011110101100010 10001011100011000 101011101010110111 0111111111110110 11010110101110 010101110101010 110100010100010 110011011101010 111101010111110 111101011101110 1101011011111010 1011010111000100 01011010111110110 010101110111010 111111111101110 011111010101110 111101001100110 1111011100011100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 864
- Average number of words per stanza: 152
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, she, and, with, my, his, her, you, your, may are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, the, my are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Madam La Maquise;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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