This is an analysis of the poem Confession that begins with:

Une fois, une seule, aimable et douce femme,
À mon bras votre bras poli...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcX XXXX XXXX XXXX dXdX XXef XgXX ahXX XXXX XXXd g gahe hiej Xbij bfjX dffk elam fndX goch kbXX gXeh X g bfbX meme efef nfnf hghg elel kgkg bjbj obfX ojoj Xh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110111 111110 1001011011 1101111 111101011 11110 11100011111 11010100 101110111010 11101000 10111111101 11000100 1110101001 10111 0111101001111 11101 011110101011 1010100 11101101 1011100 11111100110 1110100 1101010111011 11101110 11110111 11101110 1110101110111 1110110 111111111 11100101 01101111111 1110100 1111101111 1111011 10111011111 111100 110101110 1101110 1110010010 1100001 010 111101100010 111111 101010011011 11000110 0111010110 011101 1001000011 1010101010 1010101001100 111100 01111110101 100101 1000010111000 100111 011001100110 10010010 0111101011 00100101 01010011 01100 101010101001 11101001 1111101011 001010 1100110101 11010101 111101010111 11000101 1001100001010 11000011 001110101101 0001001 1011100101 11111110 1010010000010 010101000 1100110101 01010100 1110010010 0010100 10100 010 11110111010 11011111 11011101110 1101001000 01010101010 01110111 01001101010 11010101 01011111110 110101001 01111101010 10110101 1001010001 11011101 1101010001 11110101 0111110101 010101001 0111010101 110001 1110011101 110100001 1100010101 10010001 1101111101 110001010 1101010001 110101010 10110100010 01011101 11010101010 01010010 11001101010 1111010100 010100100010 0101011000 11010111010 11011111 11010011110 00010001 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; la, des, que, les, cette, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words que, that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Confession;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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