This is an analysis of the poem Le Douanier that begins with:
Quoi, l’on te fend l’oreille ! est-il vrai qu’on te rogne,
Douanier ?… Tu vas mourir et pourrir sans façon,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa XXXXXX X bXbcXXXddXX bXXb XXXe eX bXXX XXXXXXXXXbX aXXXXf Xb XXXX XeXXXX XXdX XX gXXgXX hhXf XXXX XcaadX XXaXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,1,11,4,4,2,4,11,6,2,4,6,4,2,6,4,4,6,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100111111 10111011011 1011111100111 1111010110 11101010011 11101110101 110101110 1110010 1101011 11111 11011 111101 1111010 111101 10011 1101 11010111 1011100 1100010 1101010 10110101 111110 110 1111001 1101101 1101000 110011 1100101 1110101 1111010 111011 0100101 1111101 1101111 1001011 1111110 101110 1011010 11110111110 110011010 11011111 11101110 11011110100 11111110 101010110 100110100100 11001100 11011110101 1001001110100 110011111 11000111110 101110111010 11110010011 1100011110 11101111011 110111110100 101101101101 111101111101 11110011110110 1110011110 1101011111 1111111111100 11110100110 11010101 1110111100 11111110010 1001111 11101010 1100011000 1111011101 101011000 1111101101 11010011110 101101110110 101110100 10110110111 1011110111 111111101000 110110111110 111110111 111111111 101111101110 1000011010 11111110 11111011011 11100111110 1011110010 110100101 10100010110111 11001101111 1110111111 11001011101 11111011100 11011101 1110001111 11101111010 111011111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 102
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; on, te, de, la, d, les, et, le, savais, un, plus are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sans, la, sous, plus, rends are repeated.
The author used the same word tu 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 te, es, me, pas are repeated).
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- summary of Le Douanier;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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