This is an analysis of the poem Le Bossu Bitor that begins with:

Un pauvre petit diable aussi vaillant qu’un autre,
Quatrième et dernier à bord d’un petit cotre…...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabb XbbX cdXe fXXXXX bXXXXXffdXXcXX X XXX gXXa XXhhXbXX bb XX XadXXbicXXjXaXXXXX XX fXdXkbXXcc XXXblXkb XXXXXaXiXiXkXfXXXXXX XXXXXXXXaXaXXcc XXXXXXX iXXbXXXXXXXXXbbXXXX kXXf XX bXXgaXcXcX mXXXaXfXkk XbeXXX XXbXXXa XXXXnfX X gXXXXnX X XgaaXXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,6,14,1,3,4,8,2,2,18,2,10,8,20,15,7,19,4,2,10,10,6,7,7,1,7,1,14,20,3,10,2,2,4,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101101011 1011011101 11100101011 1100101101 110100101010 1011010110 11101111011 111110101100 11011111011 1111101111 11110101101 11011110001 11111110110 1011011100110 001011101101 010111110 110100101111 1011101111 101101101111 011011011 01111110110 1011 10101 11011100 1111110110 01111010010 101011011101 10101 101011 1100101111 1110110110 111111111001 1001111110110 1001101100100 10110111101 11111111 10111010 10011011011 11111111 11011011010 1010111100 11011011010 11111101010 1111011101 11011111010 1110100111111 1110010101110 10010111011 1010111010 11011010100 1101101010011 11011110011 10101011111 101010111011 1101010111000 0111111111 11111111001 11111010010 110100111010 11011111110 1110110 1010110 111111111001 11010010010 111011010101 100111 11101 11011011110 110110110011 10111101101101 1111111110100 1111010010 11111111001 11100111001 11111010111 10111101010 1011111111 11110111111 111111011101 11001111011 1100101011 1011011110 101111101 100110100111 101111110 111111111111 1011101001110 111101111011 1111011101111 101101011110 10101101101 100111101011 110110011101 10100101001 11111110111 110111111110 110010111111 1101100111001 101101111100 111100101110 11110111010 110011110010 1110110110 1010101011 11101011010 111111111111 111 11101101 010111111110 101010111011 11101110011 111111110100 11101111000 1011110111 11110111111 11110111110 111111110 1111101101100 110011111100 1010101110111 01111111101 11110011110 10111011001 1111100011100 1111101111100 11111111111 11101111111 111011110 101101011 110110101010 1101010110 111010110100 11011111100 10111111011 1101011111010 1100110100 0110101010 11001011011 11001011100 10100111000 100101101100 1111011010 11001011110 1111011110 101101110011 11001010110 110011110100 11010011011 1111111101 111110110 101101111 11010111010 110101010 1111011110010 11001100111 01101111000 0111110111110 1111111111 11110111111 10110111010 11010110101 11111101110 1111010101101 0101101111 10111011010 110011101 10110111 111111011 110111011010 101000101111 11010110011 111101111 1111011111011 0111110110101 11111101100 011010101111 10100111011 111111111111 01011011111 110110110110 11101111111 11110111000010 110101101101 111101110110 1111111110110 11110111010 11110111111 1111101101 011111101111 11011111111 11111101111 111101 110110 110111111010 1101110110 1111011101000 111111111001 1101011 1100 10001111100 11011110111 110100111010 111111011 111010011111 11101010101 11101110111 10110 10110 10011100111 10010110111 11010000110 1110011010 1101101101100 111101110100 11011110011 1110011101111 1 1110101100 010010111101 011011 110100 11101111101100 1111111101 11100 10111 1010111111 11111011 110111101100 1100101000100 10011000100 11 1000110 101000101011 11011101011 1111110111 11100101110 01 1010101010 1110011111 11111 011 100111110011 11111110111 1101100101011 11110111111 11010011011 0110011 11101 110110111101 11001010111 11110111111 110110111000 1110011011000 1110110100 1011011100 1110010101 110011101011 11010011101 1100100110110 1111001110 10111011010 110101010 11101011101 111111100 10011111001 11010111010 1110111011 1111011110 1 011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 329
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 280
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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; un, le, et, de, t, tant, la, l, bitor, est, il, c, quoi, s, des, n, pas, ah, tu, r are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words le, se, il, des, n, c, carognes are repeated.

    The author used the same words un, le, c at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, te, re, ros, on, t, gale are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Le Bossu Bitor;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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