This is an analysis of the poem Mon Père that begins with:
Tenez, lecteur! - souvent, tout seul, je me promène
Au lieu qui fut jadis la barrière du Maine. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXXXXXXXXXaXcXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010111111 11111011001 11101001010 10110100100 11110111011 011110110010 011011010111 11111011110 11110111110 1110111101 11110111111 111011101101 1111111111 111111110111 1111011101 10111101010 1111010110101 111101111101 1110110111101 111001101100 111101110100 1101001011000 11110100110 110110111010 11101111111 11011011111 1101101100 110010111110 1001101111 1111001101 1101101100 1110111010 111010111011 10110110011 111110111010 11111110110 01001011 1101011100 1111001111110 1011111011110 111110011010 1101011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2037
- Average number of words per stanza: 369
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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, ce are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, ve, re are repeated).
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- summary of Mon Père;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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