This is an analysis of the poem Eene Fransche Zonde that begins with:

Peut-être, mon Cousin, avez-vous souvenance
comme, nous promenant nous deux en discutant,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XaXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11110101100 11100111100 110111101 1110011100 10111001110 11101111101 10111011010 111111101100 100111110111 11001010111 11111111110 111101101001 1101111001 1101011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nous, de are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

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