This is an analysis of the poem Au Prolétaire that begins with:
Ô captif innocent qui ne sais pas chanter
Écoute en travaillant Tandis que tu te tais...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXaX XXXXXXXXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001111110 11100101111 1111011100 10111011011 10011111101 0110101011 11110110110 110101111 1111110011 101011110 11111111010 10010011101 11011001011 10101010110 11111111110 111111101110 110010011100 111111101100 1100011101100 1100011101110 100011100111 11001011110 110110110111 11111111111 11111111111 11011011001 111010110100 11111111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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, de, des, tes, sont, tu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word des is repeated.
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- summary of Au Prolétaire;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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