This is an analysis of the poem Albertus, Xlix that begins with:
Amour ! le seul péché qui vaille qu'on se damne,
- En vain dans ses sermons le prêtre te condamne, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 100111110111 11111001110 111110100101 1101111111 11101011111 11011111011 11100110001 1101101100111 1101111101 111111110111 1010111101 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; le, en, vain, ou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word en is repeated.
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- summary of Albertus, Xlix;
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- idea of the verse;
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