This is an analysis of the poem La Passante that begins with:
Hier, j'ai vu passer, comme une ombre qu'on plaint,
En un grand parc obscur, une femme voilée:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011110111101 111110111 1110011011 1011111100 111101111100 110111010 111001111 10111011111 110011011010 101100101111 11111101100 1110101111 110011111111 11111001111001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
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- summary of La Passante;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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