This is an analysis of the poem Les Amants De Montmorency that begins with:

Etaient-ils malheureux, Esprits qui le savez !
Dans les trois derniers jours qu'ils s'étaient réservés ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXbXXXXXaaXXXcXXddXXaaXX XXXXXXXdXXeXfXgghXXXfXgXXXXeXXXXXXggfXXXXXXXXXXXXX aXaXXXXXXXXXggfXXXXXaabXXhXXXXcaaXXaXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,50,39,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100101010 1111011011 11110111111 1101110010 1011101110 1101101100 10110111001 11111101 11111111111 110110110010 11011100110 110010101110 10110110010 110111110110 1110101111 11110111 110010100110 10101101010 11011101011 110101111111 1011010110111 1011010100 110100101110 11101011110 011010110111 10110111010 110101111 111111011 111001101110 10101101000 1101110110 01101001011 001100010100 110110111011 11110011111 1101111100 10101001110 1010101111101 1101101101110 1011111111100 111001010111 1011110110 1010101111 110111111 1110010101 1110101111 11110011110 10010010110 1001110110 11111011111 11010111011 1110101001101 11110100101 101111101110 110001100110 1101111110 11011010110 1111001101001 01110011111 1110111111111 1110100110 11011101010 10110100101010 1110101100101 00110111111 1111010111101 11111111011 111001011001110 11110001010 10111001010 11111110011 11011110100 11110110100 11010111011 111101101100 1110001001100 11111100100 10111101110 1111101111 1000111111011111 11110101101 101110001110 10111011111 10011111010 1111011100 1010101101 10101010110 111110111 1011111111010 11111111001101 1111111111011 1101101010101 110111011 1100110001 10110101011 110100110001 111110111011 1010111111110 11011111110 1111111011001 111111111101 11011101101011 111011 1110100 110110111100 1011111101110 10110110100 11110110010 11011111010 110111111011 11010111111 1011101000 10111111110 100111011 11110010110 111111110101 11011111100 10111011011 111010111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1909
  • Average number of words per stanza: 346
  • Amount of lines: 119
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; en, sur, de, et, elle, aux, ils, le, la, ', nul, des, deux, si, ces, ses, qu'on, sans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, ils, ', si are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, e, s, tre, es, pas are repeated).

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  • summary of Les Amants De Montmorency;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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