This is an analysis of the poem La Sœur Du Tasse that begins with:
Oh ! bien avant Mercœur, la Sapho de la Loire,
Le poëte a servi de pâture à la gloire,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXXXccXdXXXbXaXXbbXXXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXbffXgXXXXXh XcgXiXjX XXXdXXXXXXXXXXjj XaeXXXaaXXXjiXXXXXXh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,14,8,16,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110110011 010100111 11011110010 1111101111 011111111001 1011101011 1011001111110 1101010011 1101011110 11110110110 111100110110 110110110110 1110111101 1111001011 110010110111 111111001101 1011111100 11110100101 1110111111 1111110011010 1101111110 0110111100 111111110110 11011111010 111011011 110011111110 11101010010 10101111110 110110100111 101101011001 100101111000 101110100100 11101111000 011011111110 1010011110 101011111110 11001011100 111111111010 11110110110 11111111111 1101011111 1110101010 11110011110 11110011101 1101110110 1111011011 1110110110 1110111001100 110110100110 11011110110 1011101101 111010101 11111011100 110110111001 1110010101100 100111001 101111111 0110111011 1111111011010 111110111011 1011101111 1111111011111 1011110111100 011110011110 101111110011 111010101110 111011111111 1011100111110 11010011101 11101110111 1111010111110 011111011001 1011110111 10111111111 101111011010 1110011010 10110011111101 110110110111 1110011100 110010110110 1111101011110 101110110110 11010100011 11110111111 1111111110 11001011011 1100110111 110011111110 11101011111 1101111101 110110100111 010110110111 01110111010 1101100111 1111111110 101110101011 111011111111 10110110100 11110011101 10111011111 111011100110 1111111100 11101011100 101111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 994
- Average number of words per stanza: 195
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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, tre, et, l, les, tout, un, d, livre, s, nos, il are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words non, puis, il are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre, rie, cheur, moi, robe, re, livre are repeated).
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- summary of La Sœur Du Tasse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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