This is an analysis of the poem Reminiscor that begins with:

D'un poëte aimé j'ai fermé le tome,
Et pensif je songe à toi, mon ami ;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXb XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bcXc XXXX XXXX XdXX XcXX XeXf XXXX XXXb XXXX gXgX XXXX XXXX XbeX eXXX ebXb XfXX XXdc cXXX XXXf eheX XXeX XXXX iXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXhh XfXf XXXX XXiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 1101111110 10101101 111011100 1111111010 1010110 110010110 1111110001 110011111110 0110111111 11010101111 10111110 1111111101 1100111110 11010111 111001110 01111111101 1011010110 11010110 11110100100 110111000 1010011010 0110101000 110111100 11100111 111001001 110101110 11010110 1011011100 101101011 100100100 1010010110 101101110 1001111100 110110110 101101110 1111110 11101101 011010110 11011010 1111011010 100100110 0111010010 101010100 111111010 011111010 11101110 1101011011 111101110 1111011100 100101111 11110101110 100101100 1110101100 011101100 1011010110 111101100 100111010 101001110 11011010 11111101 1111011111 1011010011 10111100 1010101 101110100 111000110 1101110110 1110110101 101111010 110011101 1101111001 1110111 111011001 11011111 10111101 11010110111 101011110 1101111010 1001011010 1101101101 111011011 1101111000 1111011101 1111101000 1011011010 11010011100 110111010 111111010101 1101111010 1111010011 11111110 111110110 1111110 111011111 011101011 1101011101 1011011011 10011011 1111101 111111111 11100111110 1110011101 111000111100 11101010100 11111110 111111110 010111101100 1101001110 1111011110 10110011101 1001111001 111101011 1101110110 11101111 10110110100 1010101110 11001100 11111111110 0101111010 110110111 111101110 110111101 11101011000 1110110 01111110 011101100 111011111110 1011011111 111001100 101110110 10101100 1111001111 101101010 1111111111010 11101111110 100011111 111111111 10111110 11111101 101101110 10111011 1011011110 1011011110 11111011 1001110110 1111011011 1011101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 37
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 148
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, et, nous, m, me, je, ses, avec are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, vous, nous, et, nos, le, avec are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Reminiscor;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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