This is an analysis of the poem Chant De Suzanne Au Bain that begins with:

De l'époux bien-aimé n'entends-je pas la voix ?
Oui, pareil au chevreuil, le voici, je le vois....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aaXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111011111 01101100101101 1100101011100 1011101111100 1100111111 111101011111 111111011 10111111111 11011011110 111110111111 110111111001 10111111111110 101110111001 110110110010 01010111101 1111110110 11111110100 11011001010 1100101111 11011111011 111101111101 1111110011111 1110111111111 1101111110 1111110011111 1111010011010 11111111111 110111101111 1111011010 11101110101 11101101110 101011111110 111011111100 110011010010 11111101011 111111111111 1111001011011 11111111010 0110111100 11011111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; le, je, la, que, sais, et, ', sa are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, ' are repeated.

    The author used the same words o, ' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, te are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Chant De Suzanne Au Bain;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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