This is an analysis of the poem Le Secret that begins with:
Dans la foule, Olivier, ne viens plus me surprendre ;
Sois là, mais sans parler, tâche de me l'apprendre :...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX aXXXX bXabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11111111111110 11111010110 110110111100 11111011111111 101111110010 111010011111110 11110111110 001101011111 1111111101 1111111011011 111100111110 101101110101 1111001011101 110011110111 11110111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ne, me, mon are repeated.
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- summary of Le Secret;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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