This is an analysis of the poem Une Louve Je Vis Sous L'Antre D'Un Rocher that begins with:

Une louve je vis sous l'antre d'un rocher
Allaitant deux bessons : je vis à sa mamelle...

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: 1111111110 100110111110 1000111010 111101111 11111011110 11011111011 1000111111 11101011110 111110101100 110111100100 110111010101 11110111111 101101110111 110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; la, vis are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Une Louve Je Vis Sous L'Antre D'Un Rocher;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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