This is an analysis of the poem Mon Père that begins with:
Mes pas dans les tiens, mon Père,
Etouffent leur bruit mou, ce soir, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXXXX aXbXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111 10011111 111 11111010 1110111 11111 1111110 1001011 11101101 1111 10110110 10010110 1001011 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; re is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word voici is repeated.
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- summary of Mon Père;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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