This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet (Je Sais Faire Des Vers Perpétuels) that begins with:

Je sais faire des vers perpétuels. Les hommes
Sont ravis à ma voix qui dit la vérité....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • 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: 1111111011 110111111 11101111 111110011010110 111011101110 11101001011 1111111101 111110111110 11110110110 10111110111 101001110011 1111011111 110111001 010101001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; j, tout, ai, les are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word je at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rit, t are repeated).

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  • summary of Sonnet (Je Sais Faire Des Vers Perpétuels);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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