This is an analysis of the poem La Fiancée Du Timbalier (The Cymbaleer's Bride) that begins with:

' Monseigneur le duc de Bretagne
A, pour les combats meurtriers, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme:
  • Stanza lengths (in strings):
  • Closest metre:
  • Сlosest rhyme:
  • Сlosest stanza type:
  • Guessed form:
  • Metre:
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 202
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, ge, les, tres, de, his, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words des, les, a 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 te, ge, es, tres, res are repeated).

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  • summary of La Fiancée Du Timbalier (The Cymbaleer's Bride);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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