This is an analysis of the poem À Ma Mère that begins with:
Ô ma mère, ce sont nos mères
Dont les sourires triomphants...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXXXXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 1110010 10110010 11011010 111110 11110011 11100110 1111100 111111 1011100 11110100 01110101 01101 1111110 1111011 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 497
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; res, nos are repeated.
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- summary of À Ma Mère;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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