This is an analysis of the poem Aux Amis Inconnus that begins with:

Ces vers, je les dédie aux amis inconnus,
A vous, les étrangers en qui je sens des proches,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXa XXXXX XXXXX XaXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111110100 0111011111110 100111111001 1101111011100 111111110010 111110101100 100110111100 1110111111000 1101011001 111010110000 110110110 1001111110 11111110 1101011001 111111111111 111101101 1110011111 1110101111 111110111010 110100110101111 10111010110 1110111010 101101011110 1111111 10110100110 1110110111011 1111110110 1101111111010 1111101011110 111011110110 1110111110 1111011010 111100011010 11010111011 110100101100 11101010101 101011111100 11001011111 1111111110110 111111011101 110111001111101 011101110110 1011001110101 0101001010010 011011010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; qui, les, vous, le, de are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words et, vous at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Aux Amis Inconnus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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