This is an analysis of the poem Toute La Semaine that begins with:

Voici: la fin de la demi-journée approche;
Et l’on travaille bien en attendant la cloche....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110110110 11101101011 1101111100 101101111 10010111110 101010111100 110011011010 1101111011 111011111 1110110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 451
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, l are repeated.

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