This is an analysis of the poem Souvent Le Malheureux that begins with:
Souvent le malheureux sourit parmi ses pleurs,
Et voit quelque plaisir naître au sein des douleurs....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXbXba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100101011 11110111110 1111101001 111010110010 11101011101 11100101001 111111110 111111111 01101011010 11101101110 11010011010 1111110110111 0101110110 1011111110 111101100110 10111110110 1111101011 101001010 10011110110 1101010010 110110111100 101100110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1027
- Average number of words per stanza: 201
- Amount of lines: 22
- 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; ses, et, de, l are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sous, il are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e, es are repeated).
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