This is an analysis of the poem Eh Bien! Je Le Voulais that begins with:
Eh bien! je le voulais. J'aurais bien dû me croire!
Tant de fois à ses torts je cédai la victoire!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXXaXXXXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010101111 10111111101 111011011110 100010111010 1101111010 10111011110 1100111101 111110011011 111111101101 111101001111001 11111010100 1111110110010 11011010100 11010101000 111111110110 101010100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 746
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, je, moi, et are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.
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