This is an analysis of the poem L'Amour that begins with:

Passer ses jours à désirer,
Sans trop savoir ce qu'on désire ; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110 11101101 1111101110 110010111001 100010101100 101010111 11111110 111101111 1001110 111001111100 1010111001 11011100 1110111001 1010011 1011100 01111101 1001101010100 1011111101111 1110111010111 101111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 794
  • Average number of words per stanza: 139
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; sans, se are repeated.

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  • summary of L'Amour;
  • central theme;
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