This is an analysis of the poem Chanson that begins with:
Quel jour sommes-nous
Nous sommes tous les jours ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 110111 110 110111 110 11101110 11011110 1111101111111 1111101111101 1111101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sommes, nous, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nous, et are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase nous connects the lines.
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- summary of Chanson;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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