This is an analysis of the poem Ne Nous Plaignons Pas that begins with:

Va, ne nous plaignons pas de nos heures d'angoisse.
Un trop facile amour n'est pas sans repentir ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101011010 111010111100 010111111111 1101100111110 101001111010 11111111010 11110101 110010110011 11110101111110 1110111100 111001111011 11110110111 1111010111010 11111010 11111011111100 11101011010 1111010110101 01111101101111 1111101111011 111101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; ils is repeated.

    The author used the same word ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Ne Nous Plaignons Pas;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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