This is an analysis of the poem Stances that begins with:
Que l'homme est bien, durant sa vie,
Un parfait miroir de douleurs, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXX aXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111011 11010010 110101111 111110 1101011 1110010 11001010 110011 1011010 0111111 110110 01001110 1110110 1000100 100101 1010110 110111 1010100 101110 1001100 110100 11001101 1110110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word des is repeated.
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- summary of Stances;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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