This is an analysis of the poem Chanson D'Autrefois that begins with:
Quelqu'un connaît-il ma cachette ?
C'est un lieu calme, où le ciel clair...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXb XaXa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101110 11111011 1110101 011011110 11111100 10111110 10101100 11110110 110111110 111010 10111111 10101111 1101110 10110010 111101 1010010 101110111 1010101 11111101 1110110 1111001 11010011 111001 0100011 1110110110 1101011 1001111011 110110111 10111110 1110010 11111101 0111101 1101100 11111101 11011100 10001111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; des, de, qui, nous, les, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words qui, les are repeated.
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- summary of Chanson D'Autrefois;
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