This is an analysis of the poem Je T'Écris Ô Mon Lou that begins with:

Je t'écris ô mon Lou de la hutte en roseaux
Où palpitent d'amour et d'espoir neuf coeurs d'hommes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXaXXXXbcXXXXXcXXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 29,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011110 1100101101110 110110110110 11111110 11111111 110010110101 1110011010 1111101011011 110110110010 11110111111 1111111110100 111110101010 1111011110110 1111001101010 11010100101 1111111111010 1111101011110 11111011110 110111010 11011111 1111110 11011111011 1011111110 11111111 110111111110 10111101101 110110110111 1110010111 11010011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1255
  • Average number of words per stanza: 254
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; en, un are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Je T'Écris Ô Mon Lou;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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