This is an analysis of the poem Par Pierre De Ronsard that begins with:

Ecoute, Bûcheron, arrête un peu le bras!
Ce ne sont pas des bois que tu jettes à bas: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011101 111111111101 11111011011 11011010111 1010111110 110110011010 100101011010 101111110 1110110100 10110111101 111011111110 100111110110 11000111110 101101111 111111110 111011001101 11001101011 110010111011 110100100111 11000101111 110110110010 1100111110111 01110101 101100110011 1011001110 10011110110 101100110101 111010001101 111101110110 1011110100 011101110 001101100100 100011101 11111101 1110010110100 100110111010 01110110100 10010010100 1011101010 1010101111100 11101101010 01001011100 1101100111111 11110011100 111111110 11010011110 0111111001 111101110 10100011010 11010111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 415
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, son, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words plus, tu, o are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, es, s, tre are repeated).

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  • summary of Par Pierre De Ronsard;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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