This is an analysis of the poem Drame that begins with:

Pour fuir l’ennui que son départ me laisse,
Pendant le jour, je m’en vais au travers...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXX XaXXbXbXXX XXXXbXXXXX X XaXXX X XXXXcbdX XXXXdXdX XXXXdXcX X XXXX X eXXXXXXXdF XXXXXXXXXF XXceeXXfXF X XXfXF
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,1,5,1,8,8,8,1,4,1,10,10,10,1,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011111 10011111110 1110110110 11110111 1100101101 111111100 1100101110 1011111111 1100111100 1111111010 011011111 11110111110 011111110 11101110 1011110111 1110101110 11101110 111101000 1010110110 1111111010 110110011011 0101110010 111111010 111010101 111110101 1011111100 011110111 11001010 1010110100 1111111010 10 011001110 111111010 11011100 100111110 1111111010 1 11101011 111001000 10110110 111010110 0111010 10011110 110101111 1110110 11001001 11001110 100110111 11011100 111011 1011100 11001011 1110110 11111111 111000100 111111111 111111110 1110111 1111110 10010110 1110110 10 01101001 1111110 1110110 1110110 1 1010111001 111110010 11011111 110111010 1011111010 11100111 11110100 111011101 11111101 11010001 11111110 11001010 11001011 1101110010 111111010 110111100 011010110 111011011 11111100100 11010001 1100111110 1011010111 110101001110 1111111001 0100110001 11101111 11110101010 110011111 11101111110 11010001 10 11001110 1010010101 111111011 11110111011 11010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 103
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; les, d, de, e, ma are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word comme is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same words absente, tresse, e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Drame;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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