This is an analysis of the poem La Vie Est Comme Une Colline… that begins with:
La vie est comme une colline
Dont l’aube éclaire le penchant,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 111010 1101110 1100110 10101101 1101111 1101001 01101010 11011100 11001110 1111011 110111 110110110 1111110 11110100 1111001 101100010 0111010 101101100 01001011 11111 101111 11011011 0101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.
The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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