This is an analysis of the poem A Une Attristée D'Ambition that begins with:

Comme hier, vous avez les souplesses étranges
Des tigresses et des jaguars,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXb XXXX XXXb bcXX XXXX XXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110110010 11001111 1110101110010 110101 1111101110100 11010010 1010111110100 1011101 110110111010 111101 1110010011 1011001 11011111110 1011010 110111110 1111001 111110101011 11110101 111011011010 1111000 1111110111 11110010 11111001011 11101110 10111011010 11001110 11111111101 10010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; s, les, et, vous are repeated.

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  • summary of A Une Attristée D'Ambition;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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