This is an analysis of the poem O Jeune Adolescent! that begins with:

O jeune adolescent! tu rougis devant moi.
Vois mes traits sans couleurs; ils pâlissent pour toi:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXXXbXXXXaXcXcXcXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010110101 11111011011 1111001111 1101101111010 111010110111 11011010110 1111111101 10101101110 11111111011 111100101010 1010011111110 11011111111 10111110011 11010011011 11001011100 1111011001 11110100110110 10010011111 1111010100110 010101110011 11011111010 10111010110 110010111100 101110111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 198
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; ton, viens, les are repeated.

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

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