This is an analysis of the poem Booz Endormi that begins with:

Booz s'était couché de fatigue accablé ;
Il avait tout le jour travaillé dans son aire ;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXab XXXc XdXX eXfg XXhX XXXX bXXX iXcX XjXX XXXf XXXk XXXl XXXX XXmX XjXX cXXX XXeX XmXX XXXX XXXX hneX o knnk cggc cXdX aaXa eiXe eXae oXgo gXag eXle aaaa gppg egge iqqX qeeq XhhrXhrrh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11100110 11010110111 11011111100 1101110101 11010110111 111111010 110101110101 110110101011 11110111010 111110110 1110101110 1110111101 111011110100 1010101011 11001110100 1101101100100 11111110 111100110 110100111011 10110111010011 01011011110 101110111110 111011111101 111010110110 11111101011 1110101101110 110011011010 1101110111110 11010101111 11111011110 110001011010 101111101 1101011010 111110111 111011101 110011111100 1111111111 11001101010011 111101111 111011111011 11100101101 11011101101101 010110111 11111011111101 111011101110 1100111111 1110111111 1101011110 11110011001 101110111110 110111011010 0110111101 1111010110010 11111111111011 11111111111 111101111111 10101101110 10111110101 0111111111 110111011111 10101001110 111101011 101111110100 1100111010 11110110111 1111101111101 11101011010 110011101100 1110101100 11011011100 111010111110 1101110011 1101001110 111111110111 111011110011 110010111110 1101110111 110110100100 1011100100 1110111011 11001111100 11010011011 001111101101 101001111100 01010110111 1111000101 1011101001 1101101110 1001 11010111010 10101010101 0101111111 10110101010 1011110111 11110100101 1101110101 10010111001 0111010101 0110101101 1011010101 1111011111 1101011111 0101110111 11010010111 1101010101 0101010001 1011000101 1101010101 0111010111 110110011 0111000110 1001110111 100111111 1101110111 11010110100 1011010101110 01111101001 10010100111 1001111110 0111011011 010101010101 1011010001 1100100110 1100111101 1111111101 1011110101 1111011101 1101010111 0100111101 1101010011 0110010011 01001011001 010011110101 1111011101 0101111011 0101010101 1101010101 111101001 11010100010 11011111110 1101111101 1001010101 1101110011 0101110011 0101110001 101101011 0101000010111 11011100011 0111010100 1111010101 0100111011110 100100001010 110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 154
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; de, il, des, le, la, s, un, et, je, his, and, it, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, sa, the are repeated.

    The author used the same words et, ' 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 e, tombe are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase barley connects the lines.

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  • summary of Booz Endormi;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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