This is an analysis of the poem Galatée Et Pygmalion that begins with:
Pygmalion, sculpteur, a travaillé la pierre
Si bien que Galatée idéale apparaît...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX aXXX bbX bbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010010101 1111010100 10111111010 111111110 1111100101 1111111110 101101011 101111111110 0101111010 0110110110 11111011111 11111101 11011011001 101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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