This is an analysis of the poem L'Ami D'Enfance that begins with:
Un ami me parlait et me regardait vivre :
Alors, c'était mourir... mon jeune âge était ivre...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,16,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111001 1011011111 010101110111 1110111110 11011011010 1110101100 1110110110 10111110011001 101110110110 1111111011 011011011011 11111111 1011011100 110010101110 11010111011 11111111111 1011111001 010110111111 110101011010 10101110110 1011100010 1011011111110 111010111110 01111011100111 111011011010 1111010110101 1111110101110 1010011110110 1111111010011 1111101101 11101011111 1111111110 110110110111 11111011111111 111011111110 1111111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 601
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; tait, o, vous, il, comme, ', c'est are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pourquoi, et, comme are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines chante, le are repeated).
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- summary of L'Ami D'Enfance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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