This is an analysis of the poem J'Aime Le Souvenir De Ces Époques Nues (I Love The Naked Ages Long Ago) that begins with:

J'aime le souvenir de ces époques nues,
Dont Phoebus se plaisait à dorer les statues....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXXaXXcXX XdecXXXXXXXXXX XXdXXXXfXXXX g ghijXagbkahida bdjkligj egaagj mafjaaXdndal X a aaffbbXbhhggXb gXkkXanngXkkgg mmffaaoXffaa k m mXjjabbbkafiifcckkiiaaXgjjXj agaXaaooffaX Xl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,12,1,14,8,6,12,1,1,14,14,12,1,1,28,12,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101101 110111010111 10111111100 101101110 10110011001 10011011001 110011101 111011111110 11111010010 10010011010 1110111001 1111101011 1101111100100 1111111001100 01101111100 110101111111 1100111011 1111100011 10110111000 10010110 10111010110 101101010110 1010100100110 101000111010 1110111110 111110111110 01100101 1101100110 110101110100 1101011100 11001111001 1111011010 110100110100 100101101000 0111011010 1110110111 110111010110 1111011100 11001110111 101110111010 1101011010 1101011010 1111010101 1111110111 1001011011100 100100101011 110001011010 110100001 011010110010 011011110111 110101001010 1100111101 0010101111 10101101001 11110101010 011010100010 0100010101 11101010010100 110101010001 0101101010 1000100110 010011010011 11010110110 101100010011 111101010101 1110011110 1101111110 110100000101 11010000100 0100101101 101001001010 1001110001 111110101010 11010011010 0100101010 010011110110 010100111101 0111110101 111010111101 101001011010 0010110110 010110100 1101011101 1101011101 1101011001 1111010111 0101001101 11001010001 0101010101 1011100010 10110111010 11011001110 01110101010 1101110101 1001010111 11011101100 01111110010 0101011101 1101000100 011101011 0100010100 11010101010 0101001111 1101110001 1101110101 1111010011 1100010110 1011010101 1111011011 0101000101 10010001001 1101010001 1001010101 1101110001 11110100001 1101001101 1111010001 1100010001 0011010101 0101110101 01010111101 01010101010 01101111010 0101110 1101010101 1101010101 1110101010 1111000100 1101110100 1011000111 1010101001 0110100101 1111010010 11110010010 1101000110 1100111101 0010110111 1011010110 1111111001 0100111101 01001110101 111110100 1111001001 0101011010 1111010110 11001111001 111010010011 1010100101 00100111 1100111110100 1110000100 0101010100 1101000100 110010110 10010010010 101110110 1100110010 11010011010 11010011010 0011011001 00110110101 001110101010 011101010 1011011010 0010110110 0101100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 409
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 175
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, de, ses, to, and, her, its, would, o, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, when, o, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 reux, epochs, days, ago are repeated).

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  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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