This is an analysis of the poem A Un Homme Partant Pour La Chasse that begins with:

Oui, l'homme est responsable et rendra compte un jour.
Sur cette terre où l'ombre et l'aurore ont leur tour,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101100110111 11111110111 11000111001 100110010111 11011111110 111011100010 10101001 100101011 1101011100100 11001111111 111010110111 0110011110 101111111 1111111111 110101111 1001101101 11111011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 786
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines te, ge are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase te connects the lines.

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  • summary of A Un Homme Partant Pour La Chasse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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