This is an analysis of the poem Le Souvenir that begins with:
Ô délire d'une heure auprès de lui passée,
Reste dans ma pensée !...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXa XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101011 1111 11101011100 0111101 11111010110 111110 1111111010100 110101 0111101110110 111110 11111101111100 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word je is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word souvenir at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Le Souvenir;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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