This is an analysis of the poem Chanson D’amour that begins with:

This absence from my own country’s
So long, it brings me to death’s door,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacaab debdbdeb ffgfgffg bhbhbhhb cibXcXbi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001110 11011011 11010101 100101111 111011100 11011101 11111111 11110101 1101101 11101010 11110111 011111110 10111111 1100101101 111011100 011110101 110001010 101100101 1100110010 0101110111 11111110 10101111 110101010 110110110 111011011 101111100 101110101 11101000 111010101 110110110 011111010 011010101 11110110 010101111 11110001 10110101 001101100 010010011 1110101 10101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, you, to, my are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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