This is an analysis of the poem L’art D’aimer that begins with:

FRAGMENT I
Ah! tremble que ton âme à la sienne livrée...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a XXaXbbXX X bbcdcXXXcXXXdXeXfXXXXXeXXX X ffX XXXXXXfXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,26,1,3,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 110111111 1111100111 11111010101101 11100011011 110110100110 1111010110 111011100100 110111110010 101 1111101100100 110101101100 1101010101 11011110001 111101110101 1111111010 1110110101011 10101100110 1111100011 11101010010 111110111 111110100111 111011101101 100110010100 1011111110010 110111110100 1101111101 1100011101 1001111010 11101011010 111011110101 1111011001 11011111111010 10111111111 010010110010 110101110 101 111111110101 11010110010 10 111101011111 111111111110 11111011 101110010110 111010101 111011011011 11101011011 1001001011 10111111100 10011101101110 11011101010 110111100100 1111010101 111010100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 57
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word que is repeated.

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

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  • summary of L’art D’aimer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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