This is an analysis of the poem Fut-Il En Nous Une Seule Tendresse that begins with:

Fut-il en nous une seule tendresse,
Une pensée, une joie, une promesse,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXXXaXXXbbccXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 1111110 11101110011 111111010 111011110 10101101 1111101110 11101100 111011 111010 111111110 1111100110 110 11110111 01110111 0100101011010 11101111111 10011011001 1101110111 1111111 10010110111 111000111 0110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; une, un, le are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word fut at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Fut-Il En Nous Une Seule Tendresse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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