This is an analysis of the poem A Ma Femme Endormie that begins with:

Tu dors en croyant que mes vers
Vont encombrer tout l’univers...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXXXX XXXaXX XXXXXX aXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 11001100 0101100 10111010 11010110 1110010 1111110 11111 11110101 11101110 101101 11111101 11110010 1001110 11101010 11010011 110011 11110111 110111 10110 1101111 11111110 1010010 010101010 1111111111 11001100 111110 10110110 1100101 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; et is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rien is repeated).

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  • summary of A Ma Femme Endormie;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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