This is an analysis of the poem Autant Comme L'On Peut En Un Autre Langage that begins with:

Autant comme l'on peut en un autre langage
Une langue exprimer, autant que la nature ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXb XXab XXX XXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1011111110 11100101110 1111110111110 111011110010 101001111100 10001001110 1111011110 0101101010 1111101101 11111011010 10110111111111 1101111111 110011111 1111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; peut, le, la, cette, me, m are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word cette is repeated.

    The author used the same word autant at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Autant Comme L'On Peut En Un Autre Langage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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