This is an analysis of the poem Si Par Peine Et Sueur Et Par Fidélité that begins with:

Si par peine et sueur et par fidélité,
Par humble servitude et longue patience,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX XXaX 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: 111111110 1101011110 01011101110 1011011100 11101011000 0111110 1111100101111 111111111 1111010111 110110101011 111110111110 11101111110010 11111011111101 1111110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; et, par are repeated.

    The author used the same word si 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 tre is repeated).

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  • summary of Si Par Peine Et Sueur Et Par Fidélité;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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