This is an analysis of the poem C'Était Ores, C'Était Qu'À Moi Je Devais Vivre, that begins with:
C'était ores, c'était qu'à moi je devais vivre,
Sans vouloir être plus que cela que je suis,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaX XXX
- 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: 1111111101 110111101111 110011100111111 11001011101 11111111001 111011110 111101010110 11001111 1111011101110 111111011110 01101111111 1101111110 1111111101110 111011110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; je, que are repeated.
The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word livre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of C'Était Ores, C'Était Qu'À Moi Je Devais Vivre,;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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