This is an analysis of the poem À Madame Fanny A.P. that begins with:

Pour le surnaturel éclat des cheveux blonds,
Pour la neige du cou, l’aurore de la bouche,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXX XXX XXX
  • 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: 10100011101 1110110011 1111101111 11101101011 0110101001111 100101010100 1101011100 11101101101 1110010101100 111010111110 1101111000 1110110110 1101110001 1001101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • 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, et are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word pour is repeated.

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