This is an analysis of the poem Veni, Vidi, Vixi (French & English) that begins with:

J'ai bien assez vécu, puisque dans mes douleurs
Je marche, sans trouver de bras qui me secourent,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XbXX XXXX XcXX XbXX dXXX XXXX X effe ghhg ibbi iXad chhc cjjc hcchXahha
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111110 1111100111100 111111101100 11111111111 1001011111011 10011111010 1111111101 111011101 110101110110 1001101011110 1110111100 11101111101 11111011111 1100111110 1110101100 101100101 11111111011 1111110101011 11111111001 10101011010 111101111101 11110110111 111111010 1111001110 100101111110 11111111111111 1111010110111 1111011111110 11111111111110 11011111 10101110011 10111111111100 101010 1111011011 1111010101 1111101101 11011111101 10001111101 1101011111 11010110101 1101001111 1011111101 1001010101 1111011101 1111110111 0111110101 10110111010 1011110111 01110101100 1111011101 1111011101 11110111001 1011011111 0011110101 10001010101 1001011101 1111000101 11101111101 0111110111 1011001101 11010011111 1011110111 1001010101 1111010101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; puisque, je, j'ai, me, since, my, i, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words puisque, je, i, since, i've are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nuit is repeated).

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  • summary of Veni, Vidi, Vixi (French & English);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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