This is an analysis of the poem Serment that begins with:
O poète trop prompt à te laisser charmer,
Si cette douce enfant devait t'être ravie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXX 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: 111111010 111111011 111111101111 111011111100 10111111110 1111110110 10110010110 111101111110 1011001110101 100110100101 110011111010 111011101110 1111101110110 111110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; et is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word si is repeated.
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- summary of Serment;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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