This is an analysis of the poem Quand Le Fil De Ma Vie... that begins with:

Quand le fil de ma vie (hélas, il tient à peine ! )
Tombera du fuseau qui le retient encor ;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXaXXXXddXXXXX XXXX XXXbXXXX XXXXbXXX eXXXXXXX XXXX Xaae XbcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,4,8,8,8,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111111 100010101011 1111111 11111001011010 1111101011 111001101 1110101001110 111001110 1111101110 101010110111 101110101111 1111110110011 110110100010 11011110010 1111111011 11111101111011111 111101110010 1111111100100 111101001110 11110101100 11010010110 01101101110 11111011111 11100011101011 111110110010 110110111100 1011101111100 11101111110 1101110101111 1101111010 1011101110110 10101111011 1101011111 1001111011 1110010101 111101110011 11101100011 11111110100 11011001001110 1011011111101 111110111110 1110111011 11101111001 111110101010 100010111010 11001110110 111110111001 011011011100 1101101110 100111100110 111111110110 111110111111 1011011110 11111011010101 111011111100 11110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 333
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; un, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dis, qu'elle, que are repeated.

    The author used the same word dis at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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