This is an analysis of the poem Espoir Timide that begins with:

Chère âme, si l'on voit que vous plaignez tout bas
Le chagrin du poète exilé qui vous aime, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX bXXX XXX bXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11111111011 0010110111 11001111110111 110110111111 101010110101 101111111 111101101101 1001110101 1111001110110 1111111010100 11010111010 10100110001 11011010011 11111011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, l'on, vous are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word pas at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Espoir Timide;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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