This is an analysis of the poem Le Château Du Souvenir that begins with:
La main au front, le pied dans l'âtre,
Je songe et cherche à revenir, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaa XXXb XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX bcXX XXXX XdXd XXXb XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 11111100 11011 1110101 110110 1010110 11110011 1110110 1010110 01111000 101110 01011010 1101110 1111010 11101101 11000111 10110110 0011100 1011110 1110011 1101011 01011010 01010111 1111110 11111010 1011101 1111111 10111110 10110110 1110110 1100110 1111110 101101 10011110 11110 1101110 11001110 111101 01101010 10101 110001 11110 10111000 1110110 0111111 010111 111011 11100110 1111111 11111110 11111110 0110110 1110010 11011011 11100110 101111 1111001 10001010 111111 1011010 0111001 10111011 1011110 111110110 111111011 01110100 1111010 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 68
- 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; la, le are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word le is repeated.
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- summary of Le Château Du Souvenir;
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- idea of the verse;
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