This is an analysis of the poem À Mes Chansons that begins with:

Au Val-Bénit partez, fils de ma muse !
À peine éclos, c’est là qu’il faut aller ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCX XXXc XXXX XXXX XXXc XXXX dXXX XdXX ABCX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101011 11111110 1011110101 11110101100 1001101110 111101110 1110111100 110111100111 111001011 1010111010 101010011 111101111 1010111111 1100111110 1001001011 1110011101 1001110101 100111111 01111110 111010111 1111011110 1110110010 110111 110111101 11011001 110100100 1101111100 110011101011 111011110 100011011 1101011101 011101110 111101011 11111110 1011110101 11110101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; l, un, de are repeated.

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  • summary of À Mes Chansons;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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