This is an analysis of the poem Au Temps Où Longuement J'Avais Souffert that begins with:

Au temps où longuement j'avais souffert,
Où les heures m'étaient des pièges,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXX XXXX aaXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,4,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001010 11101110 110010010 1111010 11111011 1111000 1101011 11101010 111110 11111110110 10011110 11011010110 101111111 1111101 1110100 100111100110 111011001101 10011 111111110 110111100 11101010110 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • 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; et, de, la are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Au Temps Où Longuement J'Avais Souffert;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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