Sonnet À Sir Bob by Tristan Corbiere: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet À Sir Bob that begins with:

Beau chien, quand je te vois caresser ta maîtresse,
Je grogne malgré moi — pourquoi ? — Tu n’en sais rien....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XaXX 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: 1111111100110 11111101111 11111110111110 11110101111111 1110111010 111100111111 11111111111100 111110101 111001100 11101110101 111111101011 111101111101 111011011101 110010101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • 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; je, bob, m are repeated.

    The author used the same word bob at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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