This is an analysis of the poem Sur Un Album that begins with:
Le temps emporte d’un coup d’aile
Et, sans les compter, nos instants ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXba XXbX XXb XXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0110111 11110110 1110111 11111011 111011 1101110 1110110 1011010 111011 11111110 11111 11001100 10111101 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; d, temps, le are repeated.
The author used the same word il at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Sur Un Album;
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