This is an analysis of the poem La Caille that begins with:
Un jour, Adam dit à son Ève :
« Hélas ! sommes-nous donc réduits...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXb XXcXaXXXXX XXdXXXXXXX XXXbXX XXeeXXdcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,10,10,6,29,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 110111 11101111 111101111 0101110 1111011 110110010 101110100 110010000 11011101 111100110 1110010111 10011111 101100 1111011 11110 111111 11101110 11001110 11100011 10101100 1111100 11101010 11011110 11101 1111101 1111111 1110111 111110 0111110 1101111 1110100 1101100 111111 111110 111101 1111001 111110 1111110 11011111 1101101 11011010 101100 11110011 11110011 111111 11111 1110111110 111111101 11011110 11110110 1111110 100111110 110111110 1011111 11101111 111011 11111101 11011110 11110 1110111 11110010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; est, tu are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, moins are repeated).
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- summary of La Caille;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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