This is an analysis of the poem Tristesse that begins with:
Sous le poids des ans révolus
Se sont penchés nos fronts moroses,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab bXXX aXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 111111100 111111101 101101110 11011010 1111111 11111100 11101001 111111 1010101 0111111 101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; nous, des are repeated.
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- summary of Tristesse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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