This is an analysis of the poem Non, Je Ne L’amime Plus that begins with:

Non, je ne l'aime plus; un autre la possède.
On s'accoutume au mal que l'on voit sans remède....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXX bXXXaXccXXXcXbXX XXcXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,16,6,30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111111 11001111111 01010111111110 11111111100 101010111100 111110111101 111110110110 101010111101 11111111110 1111010110 111111101100 101010101010 110110111011 1011011010 1110010110101 1111010110 101111010 11111110 101110101100 100110110110 111101111110 101111011 111101110110 11101100011 11011110111 11011101010 11111010110 110111110 111101001100 01010100110 11111011011 11101111110 101111111100 01101110010 1111111010 100111111 1101101001100 1010110101010 11110010010 11110101100 110100111010 111010110100 1101011011 11111101011 100110111011 11001111111 11011111111 101001111100 1101001111 1111011111010 1111011011 1101111011 111011011111 110111011 1111111101110 10111111110 1101101111 10101100111 011111111110100 111111011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 705
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, ne, plus, vous, on, ses, je are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.

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  • summary of Non, Je Ne L’amime Plus;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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