This is an analysis of the poem Tel J’etais Autrefois that begins with:
Tel j'étais autrefois et tel je suis encor.
Quand ma main imprudente a tari mon trésor,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXXXXXXaaXXXXccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001111111 11110001011 1111001100110 11110111000 11101111010 10111111111 1111101100010 110111110100 11101011010 1101101001 1110100111 10111111 011001011000 11101010100 011110101001 101111010 110011110110 1010111110 1101101101 110110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 892
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines s, e are repeated).
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