This is an analysis of the poem Bonsoir that begins with:
Et vous viendrez alors, imbécile caillette,
Taper dans ce miroir clignant qui se paillette...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXa 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: 1110101010 1011101011110 111100111 11011011101 110111101 11011111011 11011011101 10111010101 101111011111 1110111111 11111110111 101101110111 1011111111 111111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, plus are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vous is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vre is repeated).
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- summary of Bonsoir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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