This is an analysis of the poem Mes Doigts that begins with:

Mes doigts, touchez mon front et cherchez, là,
Les vers qui rongeront, un jour, de leur morsure,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaX XXXXaXXX aXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111101 111100110110 11101111011 1110111100 110011011111 1101111110100 101000111011 111111101 101110111110 111100101110 010010101101 111100111010 1111011011 1100011111 1110111011 1111101110 111011110011 11100111000 111110100011 1010111111 11110110110 11101111110 11100111001 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; mes, et, les, qui, vers, vous are repeated.

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  • summary of Mes Doigts;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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