This is an analysis of the poem Tu Ne Crains La Fureur De Ma Plume Animée that begins with:

Tu ne crains la fureur de ma plume animée,
Pensant que je n'ai rien à dire contre toi,...

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: 111111001110 10111111011 10111101011 1011111100 111111111110 111101111101 111100111111 110111110 1101111101110 101111111110 1111111110 111011111111 1101111110111 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; que, tu, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word que is repeated.

    The author used the same word tu 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 is repeated).

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

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  • summary of Tu Ne Crains La Fureur De Ma Plume Animée;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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