This is an analysis of the poem À La Santé that begins with:
Avant d'entrer dans ma cellule
Il a fallu me mettre nu...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX X BXXXBX ACXXAC d XX XXX d ecec XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,6,6,1,2,3,1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101110 1010111 1111010 11101100 001010111 11110111 0101101 1101010 1 111111 1101111 10101010 01011111 111111 1101111 111011 11110101 101110110 10101110 111011 11110101 1 110010110 11111000 110011110 11001100 11010110 1 111011 11001010 11111110101 11110110 01111011 111110 11011110 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tournons is repeated.
The author used the same word dans at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of À La Santé;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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