This is an analysis of the poem En Chemin that begins with:
Les dieux sont muets, et la vie est triste.
Pour nous mordre au coeur, les crocs hérissés,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111011 11111111 1111111 11111111 111001111 1011011011 11111111 111111111010 111101001 11101110111 1111101011 1101010110 101110011 111101011 111111110 0110101110 010101011 1001011110 1111010111 1010011100 111011001 11101111100 110111001 10110101 110111000 1001010111 1101101110 1101011011 1111011111 110111111 1100111010 1111011111 11011011110 111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1419
- Average number of words per stanza: 270
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; les, et, un, au, nom, du, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words un, au are repeated.
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- summary of En Chemin;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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