This is an analysis of the poem Pourquoi? that begins with:
Quand vous suiviez ma trace,
J'allais avoir quinze ans,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 101011 111111 101010 1111 1110 110110 101111 10111 110110 01011 111011 11111 111011 110111 1111110 111011 1101011 11011 11111101 111100 11100 111110 111100 101011 1111111 111111 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; puis, ni are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words puis, ni are repeated.
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- summary of Pourquoi?;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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