This is an analysis of the poem Avec Ses Vêtements Ondoyants Et Nacrés (With Waving Opalescense In Her Gown) that begins with:
Avec ses vêtements ondoyants et nacrés,
Même quand elle marche on croirait qu'elle danse,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXbX XXX XXX b bcXa Acbd bXa bed X d dcXd bffb gge hhe X X baXa bccb gaX gdd a g Xcbb Adba bia bed Xi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010011 111111110101 1111011101 11011100110 1010111011 1000111010 111101111 1111010100 11101101010 1111011100 11101111101 111101010110 10010111100 11100111 0010101010 0010101010 101110110010 1111101010 110010101011 1011101010 1000100110100 1011001010 110010101 010111010100 1011001011 111000100101 11010111110 11001010101 010100001010 010110100 0101000001 0101000001 101110111110 11111101100 1011010111 1011010111 1101000111 1101010001 1101010001 11010100110 01011111010 0101010101 1111011111 0100010111 0101010101 0101110 1011010011 01010010100 11010100101 10010100100 1101010101 1110011101 1001010100 1011010101 01010011101 0111010101 1011010111 001001010101 110111011 10010111010 01010001010 0101101011 10 0010101010 1010111010 1111011010 101001010101 1011101010 01011101 1011000101 1010100100 01011001010 100101010 1101010101 1101011111110 1111010101 01100001010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, with, where, her are repeated.
The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dresses, gown are repeated).
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