This is an analysis of the poem À Madame De M. that begins with:

Ignorante ou plutôt dédaigneuse des maux
Et des perversités, vous sachant hors d’atteinte,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXa XXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 100111011 11100110110 110011110110 10011111110 11110111011 110100011101 01111111101 11111110110011 1111100101 1101010111 11001011111001 11101111110 01111111101 1111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • 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; de is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word pas at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of À Madame De M.;
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