This is an analysis of the poem Paroles D'Un Miroir À Une Belle Dame that begins with:

Belle, belle, belle, belle !
Que voulez-vous que je dise...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111 11011111 11010 11110 11111010 1110111 111111 100011 1101101 1111101 111111110 1011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; belle is repeated.

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

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