This is an analysis of the poem Ombre that begins with:
Vous voilà de nouveau près de moi
Souvenirs de mes compagnons morts à la guerre...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXdcXXacXbXXXXdXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 10101100111 1001 1011110110 111001111010 1110010011110100010 100100111101 1110011 11011010 1110101 11111001 1111001110101111 101111110111111 100 1100100111 11101011110110 111010111010 11001 1000110 10001 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 757
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; de, vous are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word comme is repeated.
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- summary of Ombre;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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