La Frivolite by Andre Marie de Chenier: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem La Frivolite that begins with:

Mère du vain caprice et du léger prestige,
La fantaisie ailée autour d'elle voltige,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110101 110110110 111100101011 11111010101 111101011 10111010010 110011110 11110101110 1110111011 111001111 11100100110 111111011 11110110100 101111100 110011111100 111001111 1111110011 1111111011 11110110101 1011110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 911
  • Average number of words per stanza: 169
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; ou is repeated.

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

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

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