This is an analysis of the poem Ô Qu'Heureux Est Celui Qui Peut Passer Son Âge that begins with:

Ô qu'heureux est celui qui peut passer son âge
Entre pareils à soi ! et qui sans fiction,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX XaaX XXX 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: 1000110111011 1010111110 111111010 110001111 0101100100 11100111010 111111110 11110111110 11111110010 1100101111010 1011111110111 1111111110 1111110110110 11110011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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, son, il, ne are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word il is 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 tre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Ô Qu'Heureux Est Celui Qui Peut Passer Son Âge;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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