This is an analysis of the poem Le Chemin De La Vie that begins with:
La vie est le chemin de la mort. Le chemin
N'est d'abord qu'un sentier fuyant par la prairie, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXab XcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010011010 1101010101110 111100111111 111101 110010010110 11111011101 10001011111 11010010 11001111010 1110110100 10101101000 111100100 111111110 101101101100 111101110111 110001110 110010111110 110110110011 010010110110 111111 011011111100 11110111010 111100110110 1111110 111010110 1001100110 101101110100 111011 111010111001 11011010111 011001110010 11101011 11011110 1111011010111 100111111100 111110 111010101010 11110111111 11101011010 11111 11111111110 11110111011 10111010010010 111011 1111101010 1111101101 111110110111 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, se, il are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words il, quand are repeated.
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- summary of Le Chemin De La Vie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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