This is an analysis of the poem La Vachère that begins with:
Le mouchoir sur la nuque et la jupe lâchée,
Dès l'aube, elle est venue au pacage, de loin ; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XbXX XXXb XXXX XXcX XXXX XXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101111111 111011011001 1100111110 11110111 1011110110 0101010011111 1111001100 1110110 110001100101 10110011011 111011011101 101110 100111111 10010111010 10011011110 111011 0100111110 10110101110 11010111011 11111111 1110010111 10011111110 11011111111 11101010 11101011111 1110111101 111111111 111111 1011011101110 110010100111 10111010111 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, de, en, le, s, la, ses are repeated.
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- summary of La Vachère;
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