This is an analysis of the poem Vive L'Eau that begins with:
Je t’ai maudite bien des fois,
Eau du ciel, en mon ignorance ;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb XXXa XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXc XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XaXX XXXc aXXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 10111100 10101 101011111 10111100 1010011 1110111 111111101 111111 10110100 1100110 11011111 11110011 111110 1111011 1011111111 11110011 11001010 101110010 111011101 111010100 1011111 101001011 10110111 0111010 111101110 101111010 11110010 101011110 11101101 10001011 10111100 111111 11010110111 01111 11111100 1110110 11101111 111011 111001110 1111110 111001110 11111110 10111010 11111110 11101011 11100110 1111101111 01111110 111111101 1111101 1100111 1101101 111111110 11111110 111110 11111100 1001011 111011 11101110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; t, faut, plus, de, des, eau, l, les are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words plus, la are repeated.
The author used the same words sans, vive 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, me are repeated).
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- summary of Vive L'Eau;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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