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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