This is an analysis of the poem Frère Et Sœur Jumeaux that begins with:
Ils étaient tous deux seuls, oubliés là par l’âge…
Ils promenaient toujours tous les deux, à longs pas,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa aXXX XaXX XXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110111 11001011111 100010110110 1110011111001 110101100110 11010110111 1111110110 111111011010 1101111011100 1111011111 110100111010 1101101100100 11001111011 100100100101 11111111011 11011110101 10111111100 01011111 111011110 1010011101 1110110110 111101111110 10010110110 11001011101 1011001010 1110100100 11110110110 111101110110 110010010110 10111110001 01011111110 111110011010 110110101101 111100110 101010111010 1111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 37
- 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; deux, l, la, les, un, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ils is repeated.
The author used the same word ils at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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