This is an analysis of the poem Pater Noster that begins with:

Notre Père qui êtes aux cieux
Restez-y ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXaXXXXaXXXaXXXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111 101 111100111 10110011 10110011 11110010 10101100110 101100101 111001 110010 110010 10110100 111101100 101110111010 1010110001 111 100111 100101 100 10010111101100 11101110 11111111110 10110001001 111 101100 1011000 10110011 11010111101110 10110 10110 1011010110111 1011011100110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1016
  • Average number of words per stanza: 191
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; de, ses, qui, tres, leurs, avec, les are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Pater Noster;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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