This is an analysis of the poem Ballade Du Dernier Amour that begins with:
Mes souvenirs sont si nombreux
Que ma raison n’y peut suffire....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaX XXXaXXXX XXXXXXXX X XXXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110 11101110 1011111111 11111011 01011011 110011110 1111001 11111101 10101100 101101 1110111 1011111110 101001 1011101 11011110 11111101 111111101111 111111 10100110 1010110 10110100 10010111 1111110 11111101 10 11010100 11011111 1111010 10111 11111101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; d is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words je, jusqu are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word vivre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase eux connects the lines.
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More information about poems by Charles Cros
- Analysis of Diamant Enfumé
- Analysis of Insoumission
- Analysis of Sonnet (Je Sais Faire Des Vers Perpétuels)
