This is an analysis of the poem À Mes Filles that begins with:
C'était le premier né, votre aîné, mes chéries.
Il avait rajeuni mon cœur désenchanté....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 100111111 1101001110 101010101010 11111111010 11101111 110011111000 11111101100 110101011011 10111111011010 10111111100 11110011010101 10111010011 11111011110 11010100111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, re are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).
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- summary of À Mes Filles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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