This is an analysis of the poem La Servante Au Grand Coeur Dont Vous Étiez Jalouse (The Great-Hearted Servant Of Whom You Were Jealous) that begins with:

The great-hearted servant of whom you were jealous,
sleeping her sleep in the humble grass,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccdddeccffXeggXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010011010 100100101 101100110 010111111 1101011001 1110100101 111010100001 101001011 1101011010 01110111010 11001001110 101011010 1001101111 0010111101 0111011011 100101011 0100101111 111011001 1011001010 01011001010 1111011010 1011001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 961
  • Average number of words per stanza: 167
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; her is repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
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  • critical appreciation.

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