This is an analysis of the poem A Un Poète that begins with:

Ami, cache ta vie et répands ton esprit.
Un tertre, où le gazon diversement fleurit ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXaXXXXXXbbX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,38,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011111101 111010100010 110111101110 11010111010 100110010001 10110111110 1110111110 1100011111 1011111110100 1111110110 11101111110 11111011111 101110111011 10011011101 101111011 110111111011 110110110110 11111011111 1111111110101 10110101100 10111101010 111101101 111011111000 10110111110 1110101010 111010111100 111101110 1011001110 110110111100 111101110101 11101111101 11100111 1101010 1101001011 1101011110 101111101 100101110010 1110110110 11111111110 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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; un, de, pour, et, qui, dans are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines es, e, rieux are repeated).

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  • summary of A Un Poète;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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