This is an analysis of the poem Les Bijoux (The Jewels) that begins with:

La très chère était nue, et, connaissant mon coeur,
Elle n'avait gardé que ses bijoux sonores, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb XaXX XXaX XbXX bXXX cXcX XXdX XXXX B cbeb fbXe fghi XbXj Xddd ccce dhkX hjhd X B JBXJ FDDf FBBF BfFB XDdb XDDL DEED DAAD c B ahaX bebe hihi XbXX bdbd ckck meme hdhd d B ebeX fefe Xihi ebeX bdbd nene gkXX hfhf X B JBXJ FDDf FBBF BfFB XDdb XDDL DE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111110011 11011110100 1011001010110 10111101100111 111110111110 11100011001 11011011110 110101111110 11111111010 1010011101 1101011111 1111011110 111111111 111111100110 111011100 1011111000 111111111111 101011001110 101011100110 1110111110011 10011111001 11001111111 11110010010 1111011110 1110110111110 11001011110 11110100110 11111101110 1111110 10101100011 111010101010 11000111101 010 110110110111 111010010010 110001101010 110101111001 101011010101 01001010101 011001110001 1101101001 1111110101 001001110100 01111110101 1101010101 01101110110 001101111010 1110100100 010000110101 101101101101 101110101 101011110101 1010011011 011010110010 010010110111 0010001010 11101111001 111110001001 10010101001 011111010001 111011011101 111101010101 1010011001 1110100101 0101110101 010110100 010 11010111011 11010011101 11111101100 01010011101 1011010101 0101010101 1111001101 1101110101 1101011101 1100110101 1111110101 1100100101 1101001101 101010100110 11001000010 11000100111 01111001010 0111010101 1011010011 01110011010 11010111010 0101110111 1001000101 11110101110 1101010101 100110101 0011110111 0110111101 0101010101 0101110101 11001010101 0101110101 0101110 010 0101110110111 110111000101 0100010101001 010101010101 1011101001101 0101010110001 011100110011 00010001000111 010101011111 1101010111010 111101010101 10010000101001 100101101100 11000010100101 010101001000 101100110000 011100011101 10111100101001 0101100000111 101111111101 11101110101001 011101001101 111101001101 1111010010111 1111110111001 0110110101101 10100011001 0111011010111 11010010111001 1001010110101 110111000101 010101010101 0101110 010 10111111011 0101011001 11110001001 010111010 1011010101 01011101011 1101011111 1101111111 10111011000 01011101010 0111010101 01010100101 0101011101 111111101 01110101001 0110010000 0101110101 1011100101 1101010101 11011101111 10111101010 0101010111 10010101110 110110101 01100100100 1111010101 10010010 1001011100 1001010101 10011011101 1101010101 0101010101 0101110 010 11010111011 11010011101 11111101100 01010011101 1011010101 0101010101 1111001101 1101110101 1101011101 1100110101 1111110101 1100100101 1101001101 10110100110 11001000010 11000100111 01111001010 0111010101 10011010011 01110011110 11010111010 0101110111 1001000101 11110101110 1101010101 100110101 0011110111 0110111101 0101010101 0101110101 11001010101 0101110101 01010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 58
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 208
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; et, elle, her, and, of, to, with, as are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Les Bijoux (The Jewels);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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