This is an analysis of the poem Sécheresse that begins with:
Les champs ont soif, les malheureux !
Moi, de même. Pitié pour eux !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XbXX XXXX XXaX cXXX XXXd XdXX eeXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXc XXbX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 101111011 101 101111111 1010111 1101111110 110 1101011 1110111 10110110 1011 11100111 1011110 01110111 111 1010101 100111 101101 11101 1111111 1110011 1111011101 11 110011111 1110110 1100010 111 1011011 100111011 110110 11 1111010 1011110 1011110 1111 1111011011 11101110 1110011 110 111111 110111 11101 101 111011110 11101101 1101100 11100 10011100 1010110 11011 01000 10111100 1100110 1111110 1111 0111010 111011110 1101100 0110 11101100
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 60
- 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; il, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words d, voil, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pie is repeated).
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- summary of Sécheresse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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