This is an analysis of the poem Adieu. À Son Excellence Lady Minto. that begins with:

Madame, vous avez passé dans notre Histoire
Ainsi qu'un météore au lumineux sillon,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXX 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: 10110111010 10101110010 11111100100 10111110001 11101011010 1110111001 01011011101 1110110010 11010011110 111100101100 1110101001 11010110110 11110011110 1110001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; vous is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).

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  • summary of Adieu. À Son Excellence Lady Minto.;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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