This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet (A Mademoiselle S. De L. C.) that begins with:
Les saphirs durs et froids, voilés par la buée
De l’orgueilleuse chair, ressemblent à ces yeux...
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: 1101111111 0100110011 11000110100 100111111 1001111010 11001110010 1111111101 1011011010 111011101 111011100010 110010010110 1111111001111 11010111110 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- 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; ces is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word la is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Charles Cros
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- Analysis of Sonnet À Madame N.
- Analysis of Sonnet À Mlle Nelsy De S.