This is an analysis of the poem L'Action that begins with:

Lassé des mots, lassé des livres,
Qui tiédissent la volonté, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXXbXcX XXXdXeXXb Xf eXXX cafcXfXXXXXXXXXbX XXX XcXXXX XXXXX XeXXcXef XXXX XXX XXXXXXXbXXXXdeXbbcXXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,9,2,4,17,3,6,5,8,4,3,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 1100110 11111011 111111 11101111011 11101111001 10101110 1111110110 110111111 010110 11101011111 110011100 10 11111011 10001110 101111111001 101111110 111 1110110110 111101 01010111111 1111010 11101111111 11111011 10111010 10110011011 11100110 11111110 11111101 10111011 1111101 101111110101 11101101 1011011101111 0100111010 1011011111110 11101111010 1011111100100 1101111110 101111010 111100 101100110 11110110 11011101000 1111110 111111 111111 111011011 1011111101 111110 101 110010100 1011111 111011111 0111100 10111010 11001111 1100011 1111111111010 01011110001 1111101110 1111111011 0101111111 11110111010 01010111101 11001111110110 1111100 111001001000 1011011110 10110110001 1111110 111011011 1011110 111111111 1111111 0100011010 11111100 1111011100 0111011 11000110 1111011110 1111110 10101010 0111100101011 110010 1111110 101100110011 010101 111110 10111011 1011101111 111011110011 111110111100 1010111011 11101101 10001100111 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 97
  • 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; qui, et, la, vie, les, vivre, s, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words la, vivre, et are repeated.

    The author used the same words j'en, et, oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of L'Action;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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