This is an analysis of the poem La Mémoire that begins with:
Souvent, lorsque la main sur les yeux je médite,
Elle m'apparaît, svelte et la tête petite,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXXXXXbbXXXXaXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111111111 1100111101 10111011101 1001110111110 111011111 10101111111 11100111110010 110011111110 01110110011 100011100001 0111011110111 1011011111 110010101010 111101100110 110101101100 0111101100 110101111 11001101 1111110111 111100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 911
- Average number of words per stanza: 178
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; la, et are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nie is repeated).
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- summary of La Mémoire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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