This is an analysis of the poem À Un Juvénal De Lait that begins with:

À grands coups d’avirons de douze pieds, tu rames
En vers… et contre tout – Hommes, auvergnats, femmes. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX 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: 11100011110 11111110010 1111110111010 10111111111 10110110111 1011110011 1110110011 1111001110 10101101110 10100111111 110011110 111100110110 11001100100 111011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tu, le are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).

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  • summary of À Un Juvénal De Lait;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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