This is an analysis of the poem Soupir that begins with:
Ne jamais la voir ni l'entendre,
Ne jamais tout haut la nommer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011110 111011110 111010 1010 1011111110 1011100 111101101 1010 1111011101 111111010 1111011 1010 111011110 111011110 11101011 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; les is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word ne is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word l'aimer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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