This is an analysis of the poem Pages D'Album that begins with:

Autrefois, nos belles années
S’en allaient tout droit devant elles,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX X XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001110 110111010 110001000 11100 1010110 111101 10001110 1101110 101101100 1011010 1011010 1111110100 01100110 0111110 11111000 11101110 1111101101 10100100 11001010 10101111 1 11011010 1110100 111111110 11111 11101111 1101000 10110111 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; es, de are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word es at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Pages D'Album;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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