This is an analysis of the poem Si La Perte Des Tiens, Si Les Pleurs De Ta Mère that begins with:

Si la perte des tiens, si les pleurs de ta mère,
Et si de tes parents les regrets quelquefois,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX 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: 11111111011 110110101100 101010111011 111001011010 1110110110110 111011011110 1110110110110 10000101110 1111101011100 011110111100 011011110110 10110101111 1011011010 01101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; si, de, c'est, qu'il, faut, ton, or, ascagne are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c'est, le, ascagne are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Si La Perte Des Tiens, Si Les Pleurs De Ta Mère;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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