This is an analysis of the poem Lundi Rue Christine that begins with:

La mère de la concierge et la concierge laisseront tout passer
Si tu es un homme tu m'accompagneras ce soir...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXcXXaXXXaXXXdebXXXXXXXXdXXXXXbcXeXXXXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110111101100110 1111111000011 11001011111 1011100 110110 11001100 11101011011001 111010111 111010111101001 001010 110100111100 111 11111011110 1110110010001011010 11100111 110110010 1111110110011100 101 11111101 11001111101 01010110 11111010111111 01011101101010 011101100 111100 1011 111110 11000100 1001 111100 0101101 1011 110101101110 110011110101100 1111111111110 100010101 1110110111111111101001 11110011 11010101 1111111110 111 10110 110110 11011011 110111111 11101111 10110111110 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1752
  • Average number of words per stanza: 333
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, je, s are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, le are repeated.

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  • summary of Lundi Rue Christine;
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  • history of its creation;
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