This is an analysis of the poem À La Mémoire De M. De Fenouillet that begins with:

Loin des lieux enchantés où coula votre enfance,
Et sans avoir revu votre douce Provence,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXb XXcXXX bXaXaX XXdXXX XeXfXX eXXXXc gXXXfX dXXfXX XXXaaX XXgXXg XXXXXX XgXfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110110110 1110101110 111100110100 110101110 111011110 10111110 1011111001 11001011011 10011110101 10111111111 0101111110 11010100 10110011100 1110111010 11110101110 11010110110 1101011011 11100111 1010011110 01110111011 11101111001 111100110111 111011110 11101011 111110101010 1110111010 1100101111010 110110111 11111101110 1111000 101111011 11101100111110 101110111010 101110110010 11110110101 0111111101 101111111 1101100101100 11011110110 110010101 011011111011 110101 11110111100 1110110100 11101011011 01111110111 111010100011 1101110011 1011011010 11011101110 110101100 1111110100 10011011010 11011001101 1001010110 1010111110 11101011111 1101110110 1101001110 101001101101 01111111111 110111101011 1110111011 011111111 10110111011 1101111110 1110010101 110110110111 1110101111 110010101 111001111 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; votre, de, la, vous, sans, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dormez, vous are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase demain connects the lines.

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  • summary of À La Mémoire De M. De Fenouillet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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