This is an analysis of the poem A Une Madone (To A Madonna) that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaXbXXbXXXXXXXcddXXXXeXXXXXXXfXXXXX gXXXbXXX H b ijeicXbbkhkkddldimdeic ebeXdbddlnfobn mmdkneee X H b jjeeddccckkeegmfffcXccXkXXbbkkffooaa eeeeddee b X kkeeXeccppccddnniikkpp eeeebbccddkkbb mmdXeeee Xi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,36,8,1,1,22,14,8,1,1,1,36,8,1,1,22,14,8,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101100 11111110110 11010011011 110101011011 10110100110 11101111 1111001110 10111010111 1001001010 11101111110 111101010 111011011001 1011111010 111101000110 101011010110 111101110 100111101101 11011101101101 11110111111 1111001010110 01011110100 1110001111 1111110010 1111111111100 1100101110 11100101111100 1110101110110 110011110 1111011010 11011011110 101011011110 100010010111 110010101101 1111111110 1111010101001 11111101110 110100101100 1011011001 1111010110 101111100 1010101110110 110111100100 100110011011 1111001111100 111100111100 00010 1010000101 110111010110 110110001011 111001010011 10100101101 011010010101 11110111 01101010100110 1010001010 1111111011 101100110010 111101010010 010101110010 11010100111 010101101011 11001010100 1001010110111 100101100001 11001111110 01101111110 01011011011 00100001001 1011110101 011010111101 10101011100 111010101011 101111111011 0101100010 110110010110 1011111001 01010110001010 100101001010 11011101010 11111001111 100110101011 1100011110100 110010011010 10000111010 1011000100 100100010101 110010011110 1101011010100 1011011010 1110101101 0110101101 010110100 00010 1100101 1101011101 1100011011 1001010011 01011100101 1101011101 1111010011 01110100111 0100010101 1001010101 10010011110 10010101110 1001110011 1010011111 1111011110 0100010100 1110110101 1011010101 1100111011 0101110101 1111110001 1100110101 0111010101 0101000111 1111111101 110101010110 10110110100 010010111010 11011101110 1111110101 01010100101 0101011101 1101110111 1100111111 1000110011 1101110101 1101010001 0111010001 1101010001 0101011101 0101000111 1111010101 11010100101 1001110111 0100110101 0101110 110 1111010101 1011010101 1001010011 0101110101 0101110101 0111110100 1101010101 010101001 11110100101 1011001111 0101010101 1101011101 0101010101 0101011111 01111111010 11011101010 1011010101 1111010001 0101111101 0101011101 0100010101 11010100111 1011010001 1100010111 0111010011 1101110111 01010101001 1011010111 1101010101 0101110101 1111010111 10111011001 1111010101 1110111100 0110000101 1101111101 1101110100 01001010100 11010101001 111000010100 11110100101 1011110111 10111001101 1101110101 0101101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 193
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; ma, et, de, dans, ton, coeur, my, with, which, and, you, would, for, in, to, thy, heart are repeated.

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

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

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