This is an analysis of the poem Rapsodie Du Sourd that begins with:

L’homme de l’art lui dit : – Fort bien, restons-en là.
Le traitement est fait : vous êtes sourd. Voilà...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX bcbc dd XX XXXX eXXf eXddgg XXXX XXXc XXXh fXXX XXXa XXhX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,2,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101111011 01000111111 1111010110 1101011101100 111001111011 1111110 10111101010 1011010 1111101011 01011111010 11111010111 111100110110 1100110101 11111011111 111011111100 1111010111110 11111110010 110111101110 101110111010 11010111110 1111011001 11111010001 11101111101110 110100110100 1001110111 1101011111 11000100110 11010011010 111101111 11111111010111 111111111 11111101101111 1101010 110011011011 1010110100 111101111111110 1110011110 10110110110 101010101 101100110110 10111011001 111011101101 1111111111111 0111101111110 11110111100 1101111101 11100110111 1111111101 11110110110 11010011001 1110111111101 1110110110 11111011111111 10111010010 10111010010 11111110101 11111011111101 11111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • 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; l, bien, il, un, me, de, je, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word si is repeated.

    The author used the same word va 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 tre, cor are repeated).

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  • summary of Rapsodie Du Sourd;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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