This is an analysis of the poem A Propos D'Horace that begins with:

Marchands de grec ! marchands de latin ! cuistres ! dogues!
Philistins ! magisters ! je vous hais, pédagogues ! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXbXcXdcXeXXXXXXX ffXXXXXXXXXXgXXXXXXXhXXXXXXXffiXeXXXXjbXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXjXXXjXjXXXkcXhXjX XXhXXiiXXXcXXXXXXXXXkXXXaXXXfXhhXXXXXXiXkhXhjXXXXXX c XXXXXXXXXXXgeXXaaj llXaXXXXXXXXXXXjXkXXXgXXXXXXXdXbXXXaXXXhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,75,51,1,18,42,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001100101010 1001001111100 1110111001 111011111 1110110111100 11011011100 111001111001 1111011111 1110111110 110111110 11001001010 10110110110 10110111110 1110001110101 111100011010 1111011110 11010011111 111011011 110110110100 11111101110 111011010101 110010011110 11010111110 100110110101 11011101111 111111011 110010011010 1101001110 11010111011 10110111011 11111 10101 110101110110 11101011101 11110111111 1101101110011 101010111110 110010111100 11011101010 111000111001 11001110100 1011101101111 11110110010 111100110101 11111011111111 1110110110 1101101110 011011010 01110010111 1011111010 111110111 11010011010 11011110110 111101110110 01011111110 11011110 1111011110010 1101011011 111101110010 1011110110 11001110011 1111011101 110100101100 1100111111 111011101010 110101101110 100010100100 11111111 11111111011 101011111011 10101011011 110010 110110 110110110 11011101100 101000110010 10010011010 11111111100 1111011110 111111101110 101111101 11111011111 111011010 011110010 111100010100 0101011010 0101110 1101110100 111111110 11000011101 111101110010 11111101010 1001001101 110011110101 0110111010 1111111001 110011010100 010110111010 101111111 110111010101 1000101010110 1110111010 1101010111 1011010110 110010101010 1110111100 10 1100110101 1111101101 101111010 100110110110 010010110001 110011110111 101010010010 01001111110 011010111111 1110011101010 0101011101 11111001101 11111000110100 1111101111100 101111111011 0111110110 1111011100 11100101010 10100011010 11101111 11011010110 11011101111 1101111010 11110111110111 11001011111 10101011011 11111110110 11101011101 1101011100 1111101110010 111111101111 010111111 11101110100 11111011111110 1111101110 101001101000 111101011011 111111111 11110011001 10101111111 11011011001 110010101001 1001011110 101010111111 110110110110 111100111010 1101100111000 110010110010 110101010100 11101010101 10110011110 01011001010 11110010111 101011101111 1111110010 111101101110 110111100 1111101010 11011001110 111011110110 11100110001 1111111001 111010111001 11010011111 111101111000 0110111000 1111101010 0100111110 0111 1111101 1001001110111 1110100100 1111101110011 11101010111 110011010110 110110100011 1010110101 101110110110 1110101111000 1111111111 1100011100010 111110001 1110101011010 1100011110 1011111101 11011010 1111101110110 10010111111 01101001010 11010111010 111011010001 1111100111 10001011100 0110010011 01111110100 101001101 11110111110 1110011111 1111000111101 100110101010 10010110101 1110101110 111010101100 10101010110 0100110111 101010110110 110111110 1011011010110 110010111001 111011111 110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1724
  • Average number of words per stanza: 302
  • Amount of lines: 218
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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; car, vous, vos, de, que, et, la, les, tu, des, aux, tes, le, sans, par, du, ces, ils, s, on, me, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words car, que, les, a, vos, ils, on are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, ant, rance, es, tre, bre are repeated).

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  • summary of A Propos D'Horace;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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