This is an analysis of the poem Ruines Du Coeur that begins with:
Mon coeur était jadis comme un palais romain,
Tout construit de granits choisis, de marbres rares. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XXX XXX
- 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: 11110110101 1100101001010 11101110100 10001111111 1111101110 101100101100 101011001100 11101010010 11111011011 110101110111 1011111001 11101011110 110010010110 1100111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, la, et are repeated.
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