This is an analysis of the poem La Mère Qui Pleure that begins with:
J'ai presque perdu la vue
A suivre le jeune oiseau...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XX XXXX XX XXXX XX XXXa XX XbbX XX XaaX XX XXXX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 010110 1010110 11111 11111100 1011000 0110100 1100001 10011 1100011 11111100 1011000 1111010 11010 1100011 1110100 11111100 1011000 010101 11011011 1100111 1110011 11111100 1011000 1111110 1111110 111110 111010101 11111100 1011000 01111100 11111010 11101010 111101 11111100 1011000 111111 111110 1110010 1111001 11111100 1011000
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ma is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lui is repeated).
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- summary of La Mère Qui Pleure;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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