This is an analysis of the poem Pour Qui Réserves-Tu Le Fruit De Tes Fatigues [lxxi À Lxxx] that begins with:

Pour qui réserves-tu le fruit de tes fatigues ?
Que servent les trésors l’un sur l’autre entassés ?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX X XaXX X XXXX X XXXX X aXaX X XXXX X XXXX X XXXb X XXXb X XXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010101 1101111110 111110110100 10010111110 1 1100111010 11011011111 101110110111 111110110111 1 10101110110 11011110100 010011011111 111111110 1 011101110011 11011111101 111101011 11110111111 1 11101110111 1011001011 0111010101 11101101011 1 11011100111 11010011111 10101110011 110101100 1 10101001001 1101111010 1110111111111 101111111 1 1100011111110 10111011010 111111011 1011111010100 1 111101101110 101101111010 11101111110 1111101100 1 10111011100 101111111110 01010101101 11111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; la, les, en, le, on, l, tu, que are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word l is repeated.

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  • summary of Pour Qui Réserves-Tu Le Fruit De Tes Fatigues [lxxi À Lxxx];
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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