This is an analysis of the poem Un Riche En Bretagne that begins with:

C’est le bon riche, c’est un vieux pauvre en Bretagne,
Oui, pouilleux de pavé sans eau pure et sans ciel !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXXXXXXbXXcc cXccdXXX XXXXXbXXXXXX XX XaXXXXXd XXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,8,12,2,8,3,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111110 011001111111 1011100101110 1111111101 11011011011 11110111011 1101011101 11110110111 10101100110 1100010011 11111101110110 1111101101 101011 110111 110111111111 1110011110110 110011110110 110110111101 101111111110 1101111111 1101111001 011011110010 1001111110010 11111111111 1100110110 10111101111110 111010110011 1111111101010 100111110110 111110110110 111001111001 01011011110 1101111010100 110010101110 11111110111 1111111101110 11110110010 10110111011110 111111010110 1011011110101 101110100101 1111101011100 1001101101110 1010110110100 01101111110 1111110110 01001011011 11101100110 1111010110 1111011110 100010110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; c, est, s, au, il, d, ferme, et, en are repeated.

    The author used the same word il 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 che, ferme, simples are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Un Riche En Bretagne;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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