This is an analysis of the poem Boudoir Prophecies that begins with:

One day in the Tuileries,
When a southwest Spanish breeze ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbbccX ddeeffX aaeefggXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100100 1011101 11001001 011101 10011001 0101101 11101011 00101110000 010101 00100101 10111101 1111111 111101001 111111101 001010000 11011101 0100100 10101101 10101101 11101010 11001001 010111 10101011 001011000 10111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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