This is an analysis of the poem O Necessite Dure! that begins with:

O nécessité dure! ô pesant esclavage!
O sort! je dois donc voir, et dans mon plus bel âge,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaXXXXbbXXXXXaXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110100 1111111111111 10111001101 111110101010 1011111010111 01101011111 111011111110 1110111010 111011100110 111111010111 10110110011 1111111111 1111111110 110110100110 1110011101 111110111 0111010110 11010011011 11101111010 1110011010 1010111010 1111110010110 1110111111 1011111011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 560
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; et, de, la, mes, il are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, je, mes, il are repeated.

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  • summary of O Necessite Dure!;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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