This is an analysis of the poem Avant Toi that begins with:
Comme le rossignol qui meurt de mélodie
Souffle sur son enfant sa tendre maladie,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXcXXXX XXcXXXXXXXXcdXXXXXXXedXX XXXXcXXaXXeXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,24,14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001101 0111111110 1101110110 110011111011 101101110 110111110 11111101011 110101011110 1111010101110 11010110110 01001101100 0101111110 111101111 1111101011 11110110100 110111001 1111101111001 11111011111 11111011011100 111111111110 11101111 111111101 011111111 1111110010 11101100110100 10101100110110 111101111111 111101110110 1111111111101 11001010111 1101100101 1101011110010 111101100111 11101111101 111011111110 11010011101010 10110101111 11111111 101110111110 11101111111 111101011111111 0110011101111 11011110011 111100111011 11110110110 110011101100 111011011011 11101011111110 11101011111 11111111111101 111111000111110 101110011 111111011111 111111111110 111010111110 011111011111 111110111011 111001111111 1111010111110 101111101101 10110001011 111011111101111 1101110101011 11110111101110 111111011011 1111000110011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1063
- Average number of words per stanza: 201
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; son, me, longtemps, trop, ses, de, rien, mon, je, des, tu, quand, tre are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, te, res, tre are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Avant Toi;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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