This is an analysis of the poem En Sortant Du Collège that begins with:

PREMIERE LETTRE
Puisque nous avons seize ans, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaX XXbX XXXX XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X XXXX XcXX dXdX abaX XXbX dXdb XXXX XbXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011 111011 1011100 1101100 1110011 111010 1111111 11111111 1111011 1011110 111010 101110 11011100 1011100 1111011 1001110 10110110 1011011 1110011 10001 01111 110011 111111 111011 1111011 1110 1010110 110111 1111110 11111011 1011111 1011011 10111 101 1101100 110100 1011110 10111 10110101 11110 1110011 01010 111011 111011 111110 1101110 11001110 111011 101111 1101101 10111010 1111110 111111 0101110 1101010 01111100 11111010 11101010 101110 11001100 1110110 11011100 11110 111101 1111110 1111110 111111011 11111 110010 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; etre, des are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words etre, je, j'y are repeated.

    The author used the same word elle at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of En Sortant Du Collège;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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