This is an analysis of the poem Réponse that begins with:
Mais je l'ai vu si peu! disiez-vous l'autre jour.
Et moi, vous ai-je vue en effet davantage? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa aXXa XXX XXX
- 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: 1111111110111 1111111110100 11101111110 11101101011 110111110011 11001100110 111010011001 11111110 1111111111 1110111011 1011001001 1101111001110 1110001111 111101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; vous, pour, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word pour is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tour, tre are repeated).
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- summary of Réponse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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