This is an analysis of the poem L'Ennemi (The Enemy) that begins with:
Ma jeunesse ne fut qu'un ténébreux orage,
Traversé çà et là par de brillants soleils;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXX bcX D efgf hgij khl jmj X D anan nknk XXX Xnl i f lnnl ggjj jhj jjh i D bfbf hXhX iik khh b X fefX hkhk ccm jmj m D ejjm Xjhj hhX Xnn Xl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011110110 1011101010 010111111110 1011110110110 111110110 110101011111 11001110100 1111111110 1111111001111 1001111111 001100110110 101001111 11010011101 011110111110 0100 111010101001 11111101011 1011111110 110111010110 110101010001 111101001101 0101010101 0101111111 111100110110 0100111101 010100111010 0101110111 101010011111 1110100111 010110100 0100 11110101110 11110100111 01010111110 1100110101 1111010011 1111110101 1100110101 0101010101 110011011100 0011111101 01010001010 11011111010 1011110111 11110101010 0101110 01010 111110010010 11111100101 1011111111 11010101010 0111110111 0111110111 1011001101 10111011001 1111111101 1100011111 0101010101 111010111 0101011011 1011011111 01011010 0100 110111100101 0100100101001 101111111111 110101110101 111101010011 110111010101 100101011111 110111101001 1101111101111 010001110101 110100110111 110101111101 110111000101 111111101001 01011011001 100 1111010101 11001010101 1101011101 1101110110 1111010001 1101110101 1101111101 1011011101 1001011101 1001010101 110100100101 1111110111 10110010111 1011011011 0101101011 0100 111101011 11111101 01010111001 10100111011 110101101 1010100010 001010101 101101011001 1110011011 01001111 0101001100 1101101011 100110011111 10011110111 0101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 40
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 117
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; des, and, my, of, our, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ve is repeated).
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- summary of L'Ennemi (The Enemy);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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