Vie Antérieure by François Coppée: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Vie Antérieure that begins with:

S'il est vrai que ce monde est pour l'homme un exil
Où, ployant sous le faix du labeur dur & vil,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111110111110 11010101011 111101110 101111101010 101101110110 10111111 1101101011010 111011011010 101101101000 11111001101 111000111 1111111010 11101110110 11011111 11011110010 11110010111 1011010101 1111110111010 1110011111 111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 873
  • Average number of words per stanza: 176
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; est, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word car is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, e are repeated).

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  • summary of Vie Antérieure;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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