This is an analysis of the poem Voici Quinze Ans Déjà Que Nous Pensons D'Accord that begins with:

Voici quinze ans déjà que nous pensons d'accord ;
Que notre ardeur claire et belle vainc l'habitude, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaaX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111010 110101111100 1111110110 101001101011 1111011111111 101101110111 01110011011 11011101110 11101001000 11110101111 11111110101 10101011011 111111101010 0111111101 11001110111 110110010 110111111000 0100011111010 1101011111 11100111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • 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; ta, nous, et, la are repeated.

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  • summary of Voici Quinze Ans Déjà Que Nous Pensons D'Accord;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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