This is an analysis of the poem Maussaderie that begins with:

A notre époque froide, on ne fait plus l’amour.
Loin des bois endormeurs et loin des femmes nues...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXa XXX aXX
  • 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: 010111111110 111100111101 110110110100 11011010111 11110111001 111111111 1110101110 10110011111011 110101110 111110110110 110010101110 111100111 1011010111 010111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; l, on, la are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words c, on are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Maussaderie;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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