This is an analysis of the poem L'Aveugle Et Le Paralytique that begins with:

Aidons-nous mutuellement,
La charge des malheurs en sera plus légère ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXX XXbXXXXXXXaXXbXXXXXXXccXbXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,33,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011000 1111011011 0111111 1011110111000 01011101110 11100110011 11100110 11101 11001100 110110110111 110011010011 1111100 1111010101000 1111011110 10111111011 1011101 1011110 110111111 11011010 11011100 11011111 10101110 11001111111 11111100 111111110 11111011111011 100111110110 11010110011 1111111111 111111101 01110010101 0111010011 110011010 11101111 1111110111011 11100011110 11011101110 101110101001 101110011010 11100111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 829
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; sans, les, vous are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, pas are repeated).

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  • summary of L'Aveugle Et Le Paralytique;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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