This is an analysis of the poem Les Complaintes that begins with:
Les complaintes qu'on va chantant par la grand'route
Avec leurs vieux refrains de banal désespoir,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101101110 10110100110 10111111111 111011110001 0111101111100 0101011110 110001111100 1011110111100 101110111100 101110111100 1011111111 1110001101000 100100111101 11101110011 111100110100 11110110011 1100101101110 10110100110 10111111111 10111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 967
- Average number of words per stanza: 171
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; et, les, en, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words avec, et are repeated.
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- summary of Les Complaintes;
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- idea of the verse;
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