This is an analysis of the poem Je Te Donne Ces Vers Afin Que Si Mon Nom (I Give You These Verses So That If My Name) that begins with:

Je te donne ces vers afin que si mon nom
Aborde heureusement aux époques lointaines,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXX XXXX XXX XXX a abXc dXbe Xfd Xdg X h hghg XcXc ffe gge i A ajaj jaaj ggX Xig Xe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111111101111 101000110100 111111100100 10100111100 11101101000 010101010100 11110010110 11111100 11010110 1001101111111 11111111 10111110110 11001011110 111101111110 11111011011 11111011011 0101010111 100010010101 11110101010 110011010001 01001010100 1101001001 0101001101 10100100110 001010100111 1111101001 1010100011 010110111010 111111000101 010110100 1101001111 1101001111 10011010111 1011010001 0101010011 1100010101 01001011101 10010101100 11010011001 1101001001 011010111 1111010111 1011101001 01010111011 1111110101 0101110 111111101111 1101101111 01110101001 1101010100 0101010101 1101110111 11011010101 1101010101 0101001101 101010101 1001111101 111101100 10010100101 0101010111 1111110101 0101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, for are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines name, reach are repeated).

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  • summary of Je Te Donne Ces Vers Afin Que Si Mon Nom (I Give You These Verses So That If My Name);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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