This is an analysis of the poem La Tante De Notre Oncle that begins with:
…Or, j’avais une tante… oh ! mais, pas une tante…
Vous savez bien… non, non… Une femme épatante,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXbXXXcXXcXXbXaXXdXXXddXXbbXXeeXdeXXXebXXXXXXdXXXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111111 1101111110 111010101001 1111110111 1111111110 10111110100 110 111110010 1111100101 1010110010 1111111101 111100010 110111110100 11111011011110 1101110100 11110110110 1011001111100 111010111 11101110001 101001100111 1111110101 111101110 10001010001 101100101101 111101111100 1011110110111111 11111011011 111011010 1001110111010 11111010111 111101110 010010110011 1111101011111 11001111 111101111110 11110011110 10101111111 1111101110 11111011111 11111111 11101100110 101110011111 11110111100 111010111101 1010011111111 1111010010 1101111 1110011101100 11001010000 11110111011 1100110111 111111111111111 11111111111 11101010111 111110110010 10111011001 111010111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2600
- Average number of words per stanza: 520
- Amount of lines: 57
- 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; vous, une, de, que, n, elle, la, me are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, moi are repeated).
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- summary of La Tante De Notre Oncle;
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