This is an analysis of the poem Parfum Exotique (Exotic Perfume) that begins with:
Quand, les deux yeux fermés, en un soir chaud d'automne,
Je respire l'odeur de ton sein chaleureux,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXa XXa XXX B ccda aeff ghd XgX X B gXfg gffg ccg iig j B ecceecce ccjffj X X acca Xcca iih hhh e b hcga gcjf bed gga Xf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,8,6,1,1,4,4,3,3,1,1,4,4,3,3,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111110 111010011100 1111110110010 10011101101 1010011101 110100111100 111010111100 11101111111 11110101010 111111001101 11110011101 101010111000 1101111110 111111111100 01001 101111101101 1010100111 1110111011 1110100101001 01010110110 10011001 1010100110 110011101010 101110011010 1101101110 110010101001 1001001100 110101101110 010011001010 010110100 01001 1101111101 0100110110 11010101010 1101010101 11010011010 10011111110 11110100110 11010101010 1111010111 11010111001 1100010001 1101001111 1011011101 1100010001 0101110 01001 1101111100 1101011111 0101111011 1001110100 0101110100 1011110101 1011010011 1011011100 1111011111 11010100111 1100010101 10110001110 01110001010 1001010011 0101110 10100 1011110100 1101011101 1101010001 1001010101 1101110100 11011101001 1111010101 1011010101 1111010101 00011100111 1101010100 110011100110 11001010101 01110100110 0101101011 001001 101111011010 1100101101 111010101 1000010001001 011011001 010111001 10101110 10010010010 1111001001 1101010111 110101001 1001011001 100111110 10110010010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 32
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 102
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; des, et, de, and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, des, i are repeated.
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- summary of Parfum Exotique (Exotic Perfume);
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