This is an analysis of the poem Vu Le Soin Ménager Dont Travaillé Je Suis that begins with:

Vu le soin ménager dont travaillé je suis,
Vu l'importun souci qui sans fin me tourmente,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XXa
  • 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: 110110110111 1110010111110 11110011011110 110101010111 1111110111110 1101011101111 11101101011110 11010111111 10110110110 100100101100 10010100110 10100011011 10010011011 100100100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • 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; vu, je, les, chante, ainsi are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vu, ainsi are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Vu Le Soin Ménager Dont Travaillé Je Suis;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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