This is an analysis of the poem Chanson D'Hier that begins with:
J’étais comme en plein sommeil
Avant que de te connaître,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 0110110 11111 111001 111110 11111100 1111110 111100 111111 01101 11101110 010011 11110100 101010 111100 111010110 1110110 111111 11111011 1101111 101100 11110111 1111011 11101 1100111 110011 11011 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; t is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, je are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tre is repeated).
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