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I often accross phrases, where I think I know roughly what is meant, but can not quite understand the grammar behind them.
The two phrases I’d like to understand come from a poem called “La Montre et le Cadran Solaire“:
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“J’attends", répondit-il, "que le soleil m’éclaire... “
“Attends-le donc, moi, je n’en ai que faire“,
Dit la montre; “sans lui, je vais toujours mon train“.
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“Écoute, voilà l’heure; elle sonne à l’instant:
Une, deux, trois, quatre. Il en est tout autant“,
Dit-elle ...
(je vais toujours mon train“ is also a strange phrase, I guess it means something like “I always go by my mechanism“? But gramatically, again I don’t know, is it ok? Or poetic licence?)
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