This is an analysis of the poem La Complaînte Du Désespéré that begins with:

Qui prêtera la parole
A la douleur qui m'affole ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbccX bXXbbX bbXXaX XXXXcX XXXXXd XXdXXX XXXXXb XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 0110110 1100110 011111 111011 01101111 1100101 011110 0100110 1110111 11001 1011001 1111111 001101 110100 10110 11101 01110 1111111 110110 101101 1111111 01011 111100 1011 1101100 11101100 011011 1111011 11101 111010 1111111 1110011 11010 111111 101110 1111111 011011 111101 1111010 111100 1010110 101110 110110 101100 1000110 010010 111100 10110 101110 1010100 1010111 110111 111010 111110 1110110 0110010 1011011 111111 1101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; qui, la, et, de are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of La Complaînte Du Désespéré;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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