This is an analysis of the poem L'Amour Maternel that begins with:

Fait d'héroïsme et de clémence,
Présent toujours au moindre appel,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX XXXb XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11101 1101110 101110101 11010100 11011001 11111110 1011 1111011 11101 11111110 111110 101011110 11111011 0110101 11101101 111101110 01101011 101011110 10101010 11101000 10110111 1111101 10101101 11101110 1101110 11110010 11111101 111111100 1011100 1100100 1011110 11111110 10110 101111 1111001 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ou, de, le are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word quel at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of L'Amour Maternel;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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