This is an analysis of the poem Paris that begins with:

Bâtard de Créole et Breton,
Il vint aussi là – fourmilière,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXba XXXa XXX XXc dXXX XXXX XXX XXX XX eXXX eXed XXX dXX XXfe XXXX XXX XXX XbXX XbXX Xgb XXc XXaX XXXX XXX XeX fXXX XXgb bXX XXX XXXX XXXX aXXf fgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,2,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,3,3,4,4,4,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110 11101100 01111101 1001101 10111110 111110 101110 11101011 111110 10101100 1101111 1110110 10011001 11001001 1110110 1111000 1001100 1110110 11011100 1111010 110111 1011110 01011100 1101100 101011010 1010010 11001110 1110011110 111011110 11111001 111111 0101100 1101110 110111 10011011 10111000 0110111 11111100 11110010 1001111 11110011 11110010 10110010 110111 10101101 1111110101 1111010 101111001 10101011 111111 10110010 1111111 1111110 1110111 10110110 110111 11101 11111010 111111 1111101 1100110 11100110 101111 11011111 1110110 11010110 111011 101111 10111101 11100110 01101110 11111111 1111 111 110111 1101111 1111010 11111110 10111111 11101110 1110010 111001100 111000 1101100 111111 1110110 111000110 1101110 11101 1101011 1111001 11010110 1011101 1111101 1010111 100111 110101 11001010 1111001 101111 11110100 1011010 0101111 11101011 1011110 1101010 1101001 1100110 1011111 1 111010 10101010 1010010 11111101 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 115
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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; qui, des, le, les, d, quel, de, l are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, les, la, voh are repeated.

    The author used the same words la, j 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 re, e are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases moisir, four connect the lines.

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  • summary of Paris;
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  • history of its creation;
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