This is an analysis of the poem Possession that begins with:
Puisque ma bouche a rencontré
Sa bouche, il faut me taire. Trêve...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 1111111 1111111100 1111011 111111111 01001100 011010 11000101 11110110 10010000 111111 110010000 111111110 1110100 10110 111011100 11111110 101111110 1010111 1111110 111100011 10110110 1101101 11111000
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 81
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; de, des are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
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