This is an analysis of the poem Garçon D'Honneur that begins with:

L’unique fils des Pichenet,
Gascon depuis peu dans Lutèce,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXabXXcXXXXXXXXXXXdXXcXdXeXfgXghaXXXXXXX XXXXiXXX XXXaXgdXXXXhXcdX XXXXcXXX XfXXjX XX kXkXdXXXXXeXecX X X X aXXXXh X XXXXXlXleXXaXX eXeXXXXXXgXgXilXXX XdXXXXm cXXfXX XXXbX Xa XaX XXXXXXcgXXX XemXXXXXXjXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,8,16,8,6,2,15,1,1,1,6,1,14,18,7,6,5,2,3,11,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100 1010111 11011100 1111110 01111 101 011001 1111101 1011111 1111110 01110110 10101110 110110100 10011100 111001 100 1110 111011 01111100 11001000 01 11110 11101100 10 11110 111101 11010110 1 1001111 1111011 10100100 1100111 110100100 1111010 10101101 1010100 110101110 11 1101 111100 10101100 11110110 1001011 10110010 11111110 10101010 1111001 110101000 11010110 110011100 111111100 1110011 101110 110111 11110011 10110111 1111111110 10011100 1100100 011100 0110110 0101000 101001110 110100101 11010 1111100 10110110 11110 11001010 1011110 11111110 11001110 11110110 1101011 1101110 10100011 11011010 1011110 1101011 111101100 10111100 111110110 1111010 101101 1110110101 1011 10 0111011 10100100 1101111 111110100 1100 10101001001 10100110 11111 1110101011 111110 1110100 11101110 1100110 01101111 0111100 1011110 101010 1101100 1011010 1110111 11010 1111110111 1101011 11110011 1110010 11011001 01001010 1101101 11101111 1111010 1010100 111110011 1110010 1 111101 111110110 11111111 1110110 11011110 11011000 1101110 1111100 110111110 01100100 111110 111011100 1011010 111111111 01101010 11100100 01001110 110 111011 0111011 1011110 11001000 1011111 111000100 01001011 1111101 11111010 1111010 1111001 11111101 1010011 1101001 1110110 111110 111100111 1100111 11111110 1111111 11001011 111011 0110 11001100 1111011 101100 111101 111111 11110010 10010101 10011 111001011 1001100 10101110 10110111 10111111 01 1110 11101100 10111 110110 111111 111001100 110011 10101100 11111100 111111010 01010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 194
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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  • summary of Garçon D'Honneur;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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