This is an analysis of the poem Distiques that begins with:
Que la douceur toujours habite dans vos yeux
Quand vous regarderez les étoiles des cieux....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aX XX XX XX bb XX XX XX XX XX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010111 11100011011 1110011100010 110010100110 111001010100 110010110 111110111 1111101111 100110111010 11011110010 1011111001 111101101 101110010111 111010110011 10111111110 11110011110 101111111110 11011110011 10110110010 11101100111 101101101010 11101111100 10111111101 11011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; des, les, et, pour, tes, soyez, bon are repeated.
The author used the same words que, soyez at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, tes are repeated).
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- summary of Distiques;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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