This is an analysis of the poem Elle S'Est Endormie Un Soir that begins with:
Elle s’est endormie un soir, croisant ses bras,
Ses bras souples et blancs sur sa poitrine frêle,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab XXbb XXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111011 11101111101 1101101111111 010011101111 110010110 1011001110 100111101 11001011101 11011101111 110001110 11110111101 1111010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ses, de, et are repeated.
The author used the same word elle at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word elle 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 elle connects the lines.
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