This is an analysis of the poem Trop Tard that begins with:

Il a parlé. Prévoyante ou légère,
Sa voix cruelle et qui m'était si chère...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXA bXbXXX XXXA XXXXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,6,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011 11111111 0111110011 11101011101 1101111100 101111010 11011110100 1011101111 111111111 11101000111 11101011111 101111111 1111110111 11101011101 11011101 1010110111 11111101 110111101 110111 111110011 11101011111 111011010 1111111111 111010111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Trop Tard;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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