This is an analysis of the poem La Montre that begins with:
Deux fois je regarde ma montre,
Et deux fois à mes yeux distraits...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011 1111110 10111110111 10111111 1100110 11100101 10101010 11101110 0101011 11000111 01011110 0111110 0101010 10111010 100111 010111001 11011011 111111011 11111 11010111 1111111111 01100100 101011 101010010 110111110 1001101 1111111 1111111 101011 1001101 10110110 111110 11111111 111100 11010011 11010 111111111 101011 101111110 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; le is repeated.
The author used the same word le at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of La Montre;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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