This is an analysis of the poem La Bonne Soirée that begins with:
Quel temps de chien ! - il pleut, il neige ;
Les cochers, transis sur leur siège, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXaaXX XXXXXX aaXXXX XbXbXX XXXXaX XXbXXX cXXXXX XXXXaX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11010111 1011 1110101 101011011 1011 010110 110100 1111 1110110 1101110 111001 1101100 111111100 110 0110011 10101101 1100 11011010 1010110 111 11011111 10011011 0100 1110010 110101111 1110 11011101 110111 1101 110011 10110110 111 01110100 1001111 111 111011 11110 1111 1111100 101011100 1110 1010111 01111110 110 111011100 111111100 10 11110110 1011111 10 110111000 1110101 11101 111101011 1100111 1010 11010110 011110 1110 111011101 11011101 010 1110001 11010111 110 11100001 0101101 1110 0110111 1100111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; la, le, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word les is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, res, ve are repeated).
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- summary of La Bonne Soirée;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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