This is an analysis of the poem Toujours Ce Souvenir M’attendrit that begins with:

Toujours ce souvenir m'attendrit et me touche,
Quand lui-même, appliquant la flûte sur ma bouche,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101100111 11011110011111 111001101011 10011011110 11011100111 01011010011 111001101101 110110100011 11001011011 01011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • 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; son, et are repeated.

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  • summary of Toujours Ce Souvenir M’attendrit;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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